Even with Watergate and Ford’s inexperience and pathetic debate performance he still barely lost to Carter. heck his campaign narrowed something like a 30 point gap to under 2 i think.
Carter was an idiotic anomaly which in retrospect wound up doing the nation a favor by creating conditions for a Reagan win.
I think Obama is Carter part 2
Although Reagan was the greatest president of the twentieth century I do not consider his election worth the damage Carter did to the country and the world.
The ripples of the Carter years continue to grow larger and deeper with each year (negative entropy; who would have believed it?).
Yes, Obama is a Carter re-run. So now the NYT has to make Carter look great and prescient, rather than lame and weak. So that when Obama is compared to him, he’ll get some of the glow.
Pathetic spin.