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Vinny Valenti
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Posted: 02 October 2024 at 1:39pm | IP Logged | 1 post reply

Look at it this way: it's mathematically possible for a President to win the popular vote nationwide by just 50 votes, and at the same time receiving 100% of the electoral vote.
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 Steven Myers wrote:
Recently I happened to read about Reagan and Carter, and there wasn't a clear front runner for most of the campaign.
Yep.  Even though Reagan was consistently ahead in the polls for the finale five months or so of the campaign, most polls were showing a relatively close election.  Looking at the results, it appears that most of the undecideds wound up going for Reagan, which made his victory more decisive than the polls were suggesting.
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Posted: 02 October 2024 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | 3 post reply

Altho he meant well, Carter gave the Country four years of whining. “We’ve got to tighten our belts! The glory days are behind us!”

Not what Americans wanted to hear.

Reagan, on the other hand, gave them exactly what they wanted.

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My comicbook wires are crossing with politics and I'm oddly hearing an echo of Stan Lee's warning to "never give the fans what they think they want"...! 
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Living in Canada thru most of it, I had an outsider’s perspective on the whole thing, and I must say it was scary watching America becoming a stumbling giant under Carter. An America that feels bad about itself is an America that tends to belligerent actions.

Reagan’s Rah-Rah attitude made America feel good about herself again.

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My experience of late 70s America was mostly confined to NYC and environs. Any belligerence we had was definitely inwardly directed, and then some. Even more broadly, though it felt like America was stoned -- partying too hard, passed out, or painfully hungover -- drowning out a rotten cynicism that had started to set in during the late 60s.

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I saw a sad meme today. Jimmy Carter is now officially too old to play with LEGO. 

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JB: "Reagan, on the other hand, gave them exactly what they wanted."

And that is the essence of the problem, according to Bruce Cannon Gibney, author or A Generation of Sociopaths:

Now most of us Boomers are in our sixties—and it’s become increasingly hard to dodge the accusation that, in our political lives, we’ve been waging a war of old against young. “So what if Social Security faces partial insolvency after 2034, or that climate change has scientists and generals fretting for the world circa 2040. By then, the median boomer will be dead,” writes venture capitalist (and Gen Xer) Bruce Cannon Gibney, whose take-no-prisoners book, A Generation of Sociopaths: How the Baby Boomers Betrayed America, was published a few weeks after Donald Trump’s inauguration.

LINK:  https://democracyjournal.org/magazine/47/the-baby-boomers-un finished-business/

This link is to Jimmy Carter's 1979 Speech:


"We are at a turning point in our history. There are two paths to choose. One is a path I've warned about tonight, the path that leads to fragmentation and self-interest. Down that road lies a mistaken idea of freedom, the right to grasp for ourselves some advantage over others. That path would be one of constant conflict between narrow interests ending in chaos and immobility. It is a certain route to failure."


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There’s no disputing Reagan’s rah-rah attitude was a patch rather than a solution. But that patch was what a weary America needed.
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Remember when President Carter pardoned Lex Luthor?  Don't judge him too hard.  Even Superman was fooled by Luthor's seeming reformation.
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