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badtoworse

(5,957 posts)
4. Did you vote in the 1980 election? I did.
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 08:58 PM
Aug 2014

Reagan got elected because, under Carter, the economy was a mess (high unemployment, high interest rates and high inflation, aka stagflation); the Iran hostage crisis was a complete embarrassment and our response to the Russian invasion of Afghanistan was pathetic. Carter did some good things (the Camp David Accords come to mind), but on balance, he was a failure in the eyes of the country.

jwirr

(39,215 posts)
6. I have voted in every election since JFK and I voted for Jimmy Carter because in my eyes he was
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 09:12 PM
Aug 2014

not a failure and he was the leader of the party that I believed in. I did not trust the rethugs even back then.

Did you actually vote for raygun?

 

badtoworse

(5,957 posts)
7. I voted for Carter in 1976, but by 1980, I couldn't justify giving him another four years.
Tue Aug 19, 2014, 09:16 PM
Aug 2014

Sorry, I think Carter was a poor president.

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