Originally Posted by
LLL
If Carter was such a good President. the
why was he beat so soundly by Reagan in 1980?
Ronald Reagan Jimmy Carter
Electoral vote 489 49
States carried 44 6 + DC
Popular vote 43,903,230 35,480,115
Percentage 50.7% 41.0%
High inflation > 10% that's unheard of today
A spike in gas prices and more gas lines,
7.5 % unemployment(actually a good number by Obama standards)
The hostages, which he accomplished absolutely nothing.
The failed rescue attempt with Iranian troops proudly displaying the dead American soldiers bodies. A terrible moment in American History.
That highly publicized idiotic speech he made when he told America he "didn't have all the answers".
37% job approval rating at the time of the 1980 election. Can't blame the hostage crisis because on NOV 4 1979 his approval rating was only 32% and had been in that range for 6 months previously.
On the + side the Israel/Egypt treaty was a major move in the right direction which Obama may have blundered away(the more I think about this idiot the harder it's going to be to vote for him.
Also I agreed with him withdrawing the USA from the 1980 Olympics in Moscow because of the Russian invasion of Afghanistan but not that many people did.
Anyone that claims Carter was a historicaly successful president is simply misrepresenting history and is a great indicator of how Democrat leaning academia is. Just ask your self the question "Why did Carter lose so badly in 1980?"
As for Bush 43, can't argue he had problems but we had several years of reasonable unemployment and he did have the balls to take the fight to those maniacs in the middle east, something Carter did not have the courage to do.