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Carter leads Reagan in Poll: Pres Carter would easily defeat fmr Gov Ronald Reagan(NYT, Jan 1979)
New York Times ^

Posted on 11/21/2009 6:31:31 AM PST by jeltz25

WASHINGTON, Jan. 20--President Carter would easily defeat either former Gov. Ronald Reagan of California or former President Gerald R. Ford if the election were held today, according to the Gallup Poll.

(Excerpt) Read more at select.nytimes.com ...


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A Gallup Poll from Dec 1978 showed Carter with a huge 57-35 lead over Reagan. Up substantially from a 52-43 lead a few months earlier.

Just a reminder to those who say Obama is unbeatable or so and so can't beat Obama or so and so is more electable or so and o will destroy the party or so and so has no chance.

Everyone has a chance.

1 posted on 11/21/2009 6:31:33 AM PST by jeltz25
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To: jeltz25

They’ll be saying the same thing about Gov. Palin in Dec. 2010.


2 posted on 11/21/2009 6:33:12 AM PST by Nervous Tick (Stop dissing drunken sailors! At least they spend their OWN money.)
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To: jeltz25

Of course, here’s the final result of that polling:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMpQqDP-nk&feature=related


3 posted on 11/21/2009 6:34:08 AM PST by Carl LaFong (Experts say experts should be ignored.)
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To: jeltz25

The NYT should give out free Zig-Zag rolling papers with every copy. Only then would any news they print make sense to it’s readers.


4 posted on 11/21/2009 6:34:28 AM PST by screaminsunshine (!!)
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To: jeltz25

Yes. Too bad there is no Governor Reagan on the horizon.


5 posted on 11/21/2009 6:35:19 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: jeltz25

Hopefully, it won’t be too late for America when Sarah is sworn in as President in January, 2013 and begins her clean-up of MAO-bama’s socialism including stopping his govt health care takeover.


6 posted on 11/21/2009 6:36:16 AM PST by newfreep ("Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink." - P.J. O'Rourke)
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To: MSF BU
Too bad there is no Governor Reagan on the horizon.

Actually there is as those who pay attention, rather then let the Junk Media tell them what to think, knows.

7 posted on 11/21/2009 6:37:27 AM PST by MNJohnnie (Demand Constitutionality)
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To: jeltz25
Who did I vote for?

This?, Not on your life...

The clear choice:


8 posted on 11/21/2009 6:42:44 AM PST by MajorThomas (Patriotism is supporting your country all the time, and your government when it deserves it.)
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To: jeltz25

We’re doomed !


9 posted on 11/21/2009 6:45:08 AM PST by fieldmarshaldj (~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Alps !"~~)
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To: jeltz25

I think Obama and Palin have about the same approval ratings if I’m not mistaken - high 40s. However, Sarah’s has improved from high 30s while Zero’s has plummeted from high 60s.


10 posted on 11/21/2009 6:52:22 AM PST by nhwingut (The media's love affair with Obama reminds me of a dog humping a telephone pole.)
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To: jeltz25

I don’t know if anyone here has it; I’m not sure where I read it. meh

Within the last few months, I could swear I saw a poll of the 1979 Republican Primary, in which Bob Dole was shown leading by a bunch, and Reagan had 9 percent of the vote. I wanna say it was taken in February of that year, maybe? In any event, Reagan was in dead last place.

If I could remember who did the poll, I prolly could find it.

There is someone I know who needs to see it. :)


11 posted on 11/21/2009 6:58:08 AM PST by Daisyjane69 (Michael Reagan: "Welcome back, Dad, even if you're wearing a dress and bearing children this time)
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To: Carl LaFong

Thanks for posting that election night video.


12 posted on 11/21/2009 6:59:17 AM PST by FrdmLvr ("The people will believe what the media tells them they believe." Orwell)
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To: nhwingut

I’m not just referring to her. More about how polls this far out are useless. Too much can happen. Just how we should never look at a poll 2 or 3 yrs out and use it to say that someone is unelectable or can’t win.

2012 will be all about Obama. Either he’ll win, or he’ll be unpopular enough due to a bad economy/afghanistan/deficit/jobs/health care etc... that anyone will beat him. It won’t matter who the GOP nominee is.

But next time someone says “X is unelectable” or “The dems are licking their chops to run against X” or “X is their dream opponent”, just remember this.


13 posted on 11/21/2009 7:01:07 AM PST by jeltz25
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To: jeltz25

Let’s see where things stand in Dec. 2010 after the mid term elections.


14 posted on 11/21/2009 7:02:26 AM PST by deport
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Wally Cronkite looked more stunned than when he was reporting on JFK’s assassination - just dumbfounded, stumbling for words. I was an undergraduate during the time of Carter’s wayward term and I would have thought that by this time in 1979 the polls had already turned south for him. I know there was a very heavy sense of Carter’s failure and a palpable desire, expressed even by those who rarely opined on politics, that he simply had to go.


15 posted on 11/21/2009 7:08:41 AM PST by Wally_Kalbacken
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To: Wally_Kalbacken

The spin by the media wasn’t that Carter’s economy tanked him, but the Iran crisis.

In my book, that would have been enough!


16 posted on 11/21/2009 7:10:49 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: deport

I think I may have spotted why Carter would beat both Reagan and Ford if the election were held today. Apparently he’s still alive.


17 posted on 11/21/2009 7:11:14 AM PST by rjohnb
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To: rjohnb

That’s quite an assumption!

:)


18 posted on 11/21/2009 7:12:05 AM PST by Bigh4u2 (Denial is the first requirement to be a liberal)
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To: MNJohnnie

Who’d you have in mind? I’m not up for the draft avoiders, the hockey player or as much as I like her, Alaska’s former Governor.


19 posted on 11/21/2009 7:16:10 AM PST by MSF BU (++)
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To: screaminsunshine

The NYT should print their paper on hemp and include kits to grow your own paper. That would help their sales.


20 posted on 11/21/2009 7:16:33 AM PST by Tenacious 1 (Government For the People - an obviously concealed oxymoron)
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