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John Byrne
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | 1
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Best wishes to our best ex-president. He has said he hopes to vote for Kamala Harris.
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John Young
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | 2
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He has lived up to his faith of helping others. Happy Birthday!
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Peter Martin
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 2:07pm | IP Logged | 3
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I have a 'Berenstein Bears' thing with Carter -- a few years ago, during the Trump administration, I mentinoed in passing to my girlfriend that the only remaining ex-Presidents were Clinton, Dubya Bush and Obama and she asked what about Jimmy Carter. I replied that he was dead. In my head, I had an absolute certainty that he had died years before. I still find it odd that he is still alive, like I have shunted into an alternate reality.
Anyway, I am glad to be wrong on this, because I like him. Happy centennial, James Earl Carter Jr!
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Vinny Valenti
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 2:29pm | IP Logged | 4
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Whew, he made it. All of the preliminary news reports about the impending birthday had me thinking of what happened with Betty White.
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Michael Penn
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | 5
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Amazing post-political career from a low-rated President to arguably our greatest former President.
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Steven Myers
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | 6
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The first Presidential election when I was in grade school was 1976, so Carter is the first President whose election I remember. Despite having many problems during his presidency and narrowly losing reelection, our country is a better place for having Jimmy Carter as one of its citizens! An amazing man who lives his life to the benefit of others.
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | 7
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I'm sorry, maybe this isn't the time, but--"narrowly"?
49 electoral votes to Reagan's 489 is "narrow"?!? An incumbent Democrat President losing the popular vote for the first time since 1840 is "narrow"?!? Reagan's win was the most lopsided since George Washington's unanimous victory!
Happy Birthday to Jimmy Carter anyhow. He has been a very good ex-President.
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Doug Centers
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| Posted: 01 October 2024 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | 8
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A vivid memory I have from the '76 election was being in KY but from MI and during a school mock election being the only one voting for Ford .
Happy Centennial Birthday! The most productive Ex-President ever!
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Jason Czeskleba
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| Posted: 02 October 2024 at 3:20am | IP Logged | 9
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Eric Jansen wrote:
| Reagan's win was the most lopsided since George Washington's unanimous victory! |
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Steven was inaccurate to use the term "narrowly" but you've overcorrected in the opposite direction. Reagan won 50.7% of the popular vote to Carter's 41.0 (John Anderson got 6%). Which makes Reagan's win not even the most lopsided of its decade, since six years earlier Nixon won 60.7% of the popular vote to McGovern's 37.5, and had an electoral college margin of 520 to 17.
After Washington's two unopposed elections, there have been nine Presidential elections in which the winner has received more than 60% of the votes, and another nine in which the winner got more than 55%. One of the latter was Reagan's victory over Mondale in 1984, which was 58% to 46%. Perhaps you were confusing that one with the 1980 election? At any rate, Carter's loss was not among the top 20 most lopsided Presidential elections.
Edited by Jason Czeskleba on 02 October 2024 at 3:21am
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Eric Jansen
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| Posted: 02 October 2024 at 5:19am | IP Logged | 10
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Sorry, I was writing too fast and left out some information. What I recently read and should have said was that Reagan had the most lopsided Electoral Collage victory for a first-time president-elect since Washington.
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Jason Czeskleba
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| Posted: 02 October 2024 at 7:39am | IP Logged | 11
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Ah, the difference between an "electoral landslide" and a genuine landslide. It's interesting to note that of the 17 Presidents elected in the 20th Century, 12 of them received a higher percentage of the popular vote when they were first elected than Reagan did in 1980, yet he received more electoral votes than all of them.
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Steven Myers
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| Posted: 02 October 2024 at 11:04am | IP Logged | 12
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Sorry, I didn't mean to say the election was very close. Recently I happened to read about Reagan and Carter, and there wasn't a clear front runner for most of the campaign. I was rooting for Reagan, and voted for him in the class mock election. Though really I liked John Anderson the best and still think he would have been a great President. Jimmy Carter accomplished more post-presidency than anyone else, and his philosophy is deeply rooted in his Christian beliefs. With "Christian Nationalism" on the rise I sometimes forget all the good that has come from people with christian beliefs.
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