old timey villain
cope1989
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« on: October 26, 2013, 10:30:35 PM » |
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NYC was a very different place in the 1970s. There was population loss, rampant crime, deteriorating infrastructure, a seedy element and they were in terrible financial trouble. When Ford refused to bail New York out of its financial woes it pissed off a lot of New Yorkers who saw it as the city's only hope. So I'm sure that cost Ford a lot of votes there in 1976.
Also, Ford and Carter appealed to both liberals and conservatives depending on which issues you cared about so a lot of states were up for grabs in that election. It was kind of like the 1960 election in that any state really could have gone either way. I wish we had elections like that today.
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