Did Jimmy Carter whip Ted Kennedy's rump in the Democratic primaries of 1980 or NOT?
If Catholic primary voters perfered Jimmy Carter to Ted Kennedy in 1980 when unemployment, interest rates, and inflation were all in the 15 to 20 percent range, then Ted could not get elected anywhere except Mass.
The left was sure that Jimmy could not get re-elected and they begged Teddy to take him out in the primary elections. Jimmy Whipped Teddy's A$$. He said he would and he did.
Then the media figured that Jimmy could defeat Reagan. And Reagan won in a landslide.. How badly would Reagan have beaten Teddy? The only answer is a lot worse than he beat Jimmy.
It wasn’t a fair contest in 1980. Teddy Kennedy was sandbagged by Roger Mudd in an interview. Mudd asked him a trick question: “Why do you want to be President?” Naturally, Teddy couldn’t give a coherent answer, put on the spot like that.