Carter was ahead of Reagan at this time in 1980...Just work harder and ignore the meme from the leftist stooges
Ronald Reagan debate with Jimmy Carter
Arguably the most important event of the entire 1980 presidential campaign was the second presidential debate, which was held one week to the day before the election (October 28). On October 26, two days prior to the debate, Gallup released a survey that suggested that Carter was leading Reagan by a margin of 47% to 39%. Over the course of two hours, the entire race changed drastically, and what was considered an extremely tight race with the President slightly ahead became a comfortable Republican victory for Reagan. Nothing of that magnitude has happened since in any televised confrontations.
In his closing remarks, Reagan asked the viewers a simple yet devastating question that would resonate with voters in 1980 and beyond: "Are you better off now than you were four years ago? Is it easier for you to go and buy things in the stores than it was four years ago? Is there more or less unemployment in the country than there was four years ago? Is America as respected throughout the world as it was? Do you feel that our security is as safe, that we're as strong as we were four years ago? And if you answer all of those questions 'yes', why then, I think your choice is very obvious as to whom you will vote for. If you don't agree, if you don't think that this course that we've been on for the last four years is what you would like to see us follow for the next four, then I could suggest another choice that you have." According to President Carter's Press Secretary Jody Powell's memoirs, internal tracking polls showed the President's tiny lead turning into a major Reagan landslide over the final weekend.
In 1980 Reagan was known to be a hard core right winger, it was known that the election was truly between two radically different visions and approaches to government and policy. All Reagan had to do was convince that he wasn’t too scary.
This election has a Jimmy Carter type figure, but the man running against him is eerily similar in so many ways, Romneycare, abortion, anti-gun, the gay agenda, pathological lying, foreignness, devoted hostility to Christianity, little political success in their past, and zero conservative activities or political accomplishments (or efforts).
Romney literally could have held office as a liberal democrat Governor, and have announced as a democrat presidential candidate in 2006.
From registering to vote at age 21 until 2005, Romney’s place on the political spectrum was ‘democrat’, that is why he left the party when Reagan won the nomination in 1979, and did not return until, after weighing both parties, he decided to reregister GOP, as a Massachusetts republican, declaring William Weld his republican mentor.