One difference between 2012 and 1980? President Obama retains a reservoir of goodwill President Carter never acquired.
Goodwill ACQUIRED? Goodwill bought with our tax dollars!
Yet, one wonders: After such a campaign, how does Obama unite and lead the country should he win.
Obama, he’s a leader not a uniter.
It will be toe the line or be crushed.
Perhaps the problem was that with "every remedy he tried", he tried too much.
There was another economic collapse in 1920; President Harding essentially did nothing but cut tax rates, and that depression ended quickly.
Pat, you're smarter than that.
It should be obvious to you that The Wøn does not want to unite the country; he wants to balkanize it and then lead it down the road into a third-world socialist hell-hole.
This is why Obama is not going to debate Romney.
He might appear on the stage with Romney, but the “moderators” are going to cover for him. It won’t be a debate. It will not be a debate - it will be a “roast” of Romney with Obama an the MSM working together.
A lot of Northern Democrats never warmed up to Carter because he was a Southerner and openly religious. Liberals had an alternative to voting for Carter in 1980—John Anderson. Obama doesn’t have to worry about a third-party candidate dividing his vote. I don’t remember in detail the media coverage of the 1980 election but I’m sure the mainstream media is much more committed to Obama than they were to Carter.
BS. His statist response severely exacerbated the problem.
Had Coolidge been in there and behaved sensibly we might remember the event as the Panic of 1929.
***Lyndon Johnson, his 44-state landslide in 1964 and Great Society notwithstanding,***
Remember 1964? Johnson won by proclaiming “I will not send American boys to fight in a war Asian boys should be fighting!”
Whereas Goldwater stated he would send troops if necessary.
Back in 1970, PLAYBOY magazine had an interview with JOHN WAYNE.
In the interview Wayne mentioned that after the politicians had made their statements about sending troops to VN, Goldwater talked with Johnson and said to him...”You know we will have to send troops to Vietnam!”
Johnson replied...”I know, but I am trying to win an election.”
Since that day,I have NEVER believed anything that comes out of the mouth of a Democrat.
The suggestion that either candidate can unite and lead the country if they should win is naive. The acrimony is too deep. If Romney is elected then the Democrats will do exactly what the GOP has done; try and make sure Romney is a one term president. They will go to any lengths to block, filibuster, delay, and defeat anything Romney proposes. And should Obama get re-elected, then I don’t expect the GOP to do any different.
He didn't bother with that after he won a first term. Why would he bother after a second term?