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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsPatrick Caddell, Self-Taught Pollster Who Helped Carter to White House, Dies at 68
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/16/obituaries/patrick-caddell-dead.html
Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped send an obscure peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter to the White House, later became disillusioned with fellow Democrats and finally veered to advise supporters of Donald J. Trump, died on Saturday in Charleston, S.C. He was 68.
His death, from complications of a stroke, was confirmed by a colleague, Prof. Kendra Stewart of the College of Charleston.
While Mr. Caddell was considered instrumental in Mr. Carters victory, he also shared the blame for limiting him to a single term. He helped persuade the president to deliver a speech that was intended to inspirit the nation during an energy crisis and economic slump, but instead tarred Mr. Carter as a weakling who was unable to lift the country out of its malaise.
Instead, in 1980 voters chose Ronald Reagan, a Republican who promised a rosier vision that he would describe during his successful re-election campaign as morning again in America.
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Patrick Caddell, the political pollster who helped send an obscure peanut farmer named Jimmy Carter to the White House, later became disillusioned with fellow Democrats and finally veered to advise supporters of Donald J. Trump, died on Saturday in Charleston, S.C. He was 68.
His death, from complications of a stroke, was confirmed by a colleague, Prof. Kendra Stewart of the College of Charleston.
While Mr. Caddell was considered instrumental in Mr. Carters victory, he also shared the blame for limiting him to a single term. He helped persuade the president to deliver a speech that was intended to inspirit the nation during an energy crisis and economic slump, but instead tarred Mr. Carter as a weakling who was unable to lift the country out of its malaise.
Instead, in 1980 voters chose Ronald Reagan, a Republican who promised a rosier vision that he would describe during his successful re-election campaign as morning again in America.
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Interesting guy... More about him here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patrick_Caddell
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Patrick Caddell, Self-Taught Pollster Who Helped Carter to White House, Dies at 68 (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2019
OP
That's what I thought - he's kinda like Dick Morris without the toe sucking...
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2019
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UTUSN
(70,721 posts)1. "disillusioned with fellow Democrats" - his epitaph for me
SharonClark
(10,014 posts)2. He was Faux News' favorite former Democrat and of dubious character.
I'm surprised he wasn't in the Trump administration.
Dennis Donovan
(18,770 posts)3. That's what I thought - he's kinda like Dick Morris without the toe sucking...
redstateblues
(10,565 posts)4. A bitter man who died on an island. RIP
rso
(2,273 posts)5. Caddell
Yep, a turncoat working for republicans. Similar to Ed Schultz, who abandoned democrats for Russian money and went to work for Russian TV. He also died recently.
Zo Zig
(600 posts)6. The walleye wonder...
DU nickname from years ago.
dalton99a
(81,559 posts)7. He called Obama a "raging narcissist who has no grip on reality"
and then he helped get Trump elected