Challenge: Describe a Ford 1976/Carter 1980 voter.
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retromike22
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« on: February 02, 2015, 01:35:20 AM »
Looks like there's a county in VT, Maine, and one in Eastern Mississippi.

Describe the voter and find more counties.
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« Reply #1 on: February 02, 2015, 01:37:31 AM »
This one is easy. I had a relative who was solid Republican, except that she hated anyone who got a divorce. I think she would have been a Ford / Carter voter had she been alive.
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« Reply #2 on: February 02, 2015, 01:44:55 AM »
A Moderate Republican that did not like Reagan's conservatism and voted for Carter. Did not vote for Anderson because the person thought Anderson had no chance of winning.
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« Reply #3 on: February 02, 2015, 06:10:12 AM »
Someone from Upstate NY.
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« Reply #4 on: February 02, 2015, 05:36:42 PM »
Gerald Ford
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« Reply #5 on: February 05, 2015, 10:20:39 PM »
African Americans who thought Reagan was an extremist.   
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« Reply #6 on: February 05, 2015, 11:08:00 PM »
Liberal Republicans.
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« Reply #7 on: February 05, 2015, 11:22:40 PM »
George McGovern
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« Reply #8 on: February 07, 2015, 01:19:42 AM »
Young socially liberal voter put off by Carter's bible thumping but is scared of Reagan. This actually describes my dad.
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« Reply #9 on: February 07, 2015, 01:21:08 AM »
Quote from: Polls_PuffPass on February 06, 2015, 01:45:26 AM
Quote from: Fuzzybigfoot on February 05, 2015, 10:20:39 PM
African Americans who thought Reagan was an extremist.   
Reagan held black support in 1980 but he fell off in 1984 due to Reaganomics

could specifically be a black swing voter concerned that Carter is a dixiecrat but sees Reagan as worse.
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« Reply #10 on: April 30, 2015, 08:47:47 PM »
A woman, possibly in VT, MI, DE, KY or MS (where Carter's fall-off 1976-80 was small), Or someone from San Francisco or Monroe County, NY where Carter's vote share actually improved from 1976-80.
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« Reply #11 on: May 05, 2019, 05:29:24 PM »
For an added bonus, McGovern 1972 voter.

A 69 year old white woman serving in the US Senate.
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« Reply #12 on: May 05, 2019, 07:22:17 PM »
Quote from: Libertarian Socialist Dem on February 07, 2015, 01:19:42 AM
Young socially liberal voter put off by Carter's bible thumping but is scared of Reagan. This actually describes my dad.
It also describes my grandmother and likely my mother if she had been old enough to vote in 1976.
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« Reply #13 on: May 05, 2019, 09:28:48 PM »
Quote from: Libertarian Socialist Dem on February 07, 2015, 01:19:42 AM
Young socially liberal voter put off by Carter's bible thumping but is scared of Reagan. This actually describes my dad.

Yea I can't see Liberal activists in NYC, MA, or San Fransisco being enthused with a southern hick winning the nomination. Ford on the other hand had a wife who was pro choice and was certainly no bible thumper.
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« Reply #14 on: May 06, 2019, 01:33:27 PM »
Myself, if I was around then.

In 1980, John Anderson would be my actual choice, but I would have voted for Carter tactically in hope to stop Reagan.

Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on May 05, 2019, 05:29:24 PM
For an added bonus, McGovern 1972 voter.

A 69 year old white woman serving in the US Senate.


As far as I know, George McGovern secretly voted for Ford in 1976.
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« Reply #15 on: May 06, 2019, 01:53:32 PM »
Quote from: ○∙◄☻¥tπ[╪AV┼cVê└ on February 02, 2015, 01:37:31 AM
This one is easy. I had a relative who was solid Republican, except that she hated anyone who got a divorce. I think she would have been a Ford / Carter voter had she been alive.

Based ideology.
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« Reply #16 on: May 06, 2019, 09:18:18 PM »
Carter 1980 would have likely picked up a lot of Ford voters in the Northeast, but many of them went to John Anderson.  A two-man race between Carter and Reagan would have moved Massachusetts, New York (and possibly Maine, Vermont, and Connecticut) to Carter--still a blowout.
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« Reply #17 on: May 06, 2019, 10:02:17 PM »
Pearl Bailey?
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« Reply #18 on: May 11, 2019, 07:52:22 PM »

Probably not.  She sang at the 1985 inauguration, and Reagan awarded her the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 1988.  But I doubt that she would be a Republican if she were alive today. 
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« Reply #19 on: May 14, 2019, 04:44:23 PM »
A moderate, independent voter, probably a woman, who supported detente with the Soviet Union and thought Reagan was too much of a warmonger.

As per counties: Chittenden VT, Marquette MI, Washtenaw MI, and more.
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