Gerald Ford vs. Jimmy Carter: Who has your vote?
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« on: August 02, 2017, 05:18:55 PM »
Suppose you were able to go back in time to November 1976, with hindsight of what would happen IRL post 1976. Who would you vote for?
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« Reply #1 on: August 02, 2017, 05:25:12 PM »
Neither if I had hindsight, because what's the point? My vote wouldn't matter.

Carter if I did not have hindsight.
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« Reply #2 on: August 02, 2017, 05:27:00 PM »
Ford, duh.
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« Reply #3 on: August 02, 2017, 05:33:30 PM »
Ford, easily.
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« Reply #4 on: August 02, 2017, 05:35:51 PM »
Ford, in hopes of preventing (or at least delaying) the Reagan Revolution. Carter without hindsight.
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« Reply #5 on: August 02, 2017, 06:37:42 PM »
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« Reply #6 on: August 02, 2017, 06:40:57 PM »
Ford. Ford was a fiscal conservative when we needed one while Carter taught the Democrats that DINOism is a winning strategy and paved the way for Reagan.
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« Reply #7 on: August 02, 2017, 06:42:20 PM »
Quote from: Mr. Reactionary on August 02, 2017, 05:25:12 PM
Neither if I had hindsight, because what's the point? My vote wouldn't matter.

Carter if I did not have hindsight.
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« Reply #8 on: August 02, 2017, 06:45:14 PM »
Quote from: Peebs on August 02, 2017, 05:35:51 PM
Ford, in hopes of preventing (or at least delaying) the Reagan Revolution. Carter without hindsight.
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« Reply #9 on: August 02, 2017, 06:46:53 PM »
Quote from: Skunk on August 02, 2017, 06:45:14 PM
Quote from: Peebs on August 02, 2017, 05:35:51 PM
Ford, in hopes of preventing (or at least delaying) the Reagan Revolution. Carter without hindsight.

This. A Ford Victory in 1976 may of been one of those elections in which the losing party wins in the long run.
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« Reply #10 on: August 02, 2017, 07:06:58 PM »
Quote from: Peebs on August 02, 2017, 05:35:51 PM
Ford, in hopes of preventing (or at least delaying) the Reagan Revolution. Carter without hindsight.
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« Reply #11 on: August 02, 2017, 07:09:41 PM »
Quote from: DWL on August 02, 2017, 07:06:58 PM
Quote from: Peebs on August 02, 2017, 05:35:51 PM
Ford, in hopes of preventing (or at least delaying) the Reagan Revolution. Carter without hindsight.
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« Reply #12 on: August 02, 2017, 07:35:12 PM »
« Edited: October 22, 2017, 10:41:58 AM by Sir Tiki »
Quote from: TDAS04 on August 02, 2017, 07:09:41 PM
Quote from: DWL on August 02, 2017, 07:06:58 PM
Quote from: Peebs on August 02, 2017, 05:35:51 PM
Ford, in hopes of preventing (or at least delaying) the Reagan Revolution. Carter McCarthy without hindsight.
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« Reply #13 on: August 02, 2017, 08:42:59 PM »
Carter
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« Reply #14 on: August 02, 2017, 08:43:24 PM »
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« Reply #15 on: August 02, 2017, 10:19:45 PM »
Simon, Hills, Richardson, and the others on Ford's Economic team would have alllowed for slightly more economic spending and, to a greater extent, tax cuts on the bottom 95%.
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« Reply #16 on: August 02, 2017, 10:26:20 PM »
Still Carter.

Keep Bob Dole in Kansas, keep Cheney, Kissinger, and Rumsfled as far away from any kind of power as possible, and don't keep anymore focus on 'Nam [whose dissenters never would've gotten unconditional pardons for draft dodging under Ford]

Also, Rosalynn > Betty.
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« Reply #17 on: August 02, 2017, 10:36:32 PM »
Quote from: Let Dogs Survive on August 02, 2017, 10:26:20 PM
Still Carter.

Keep Bob Dole in Kansas, keep Cheney, Kissinger, and Rumsfled as far away from any kind of power as possible, and don't keep anymore focus on 'Nam [whose dissenters never would've gotten unconditional pardons for draft dodging under Ford]

Also, Rosalynn > Betty.
Interestingly enough, that issue is what kept my grandmother from voting for Carter.
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« Reply #18 on: August 02, 2017, 11:37:58 PM »
Carter. There was no "Reagan revolution" and an acceleration of market policies by an 80s Democratic president would have been worse in the long-term for progressives than what actually happened.
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« Reply #19 on: August 03, 2017, 12:14:03 AM »
Quote from: Northwest Goff on August 02, 2017, 11:37:58 PM
Carter. There was no "Reagan revolution" and an acceleration of market policies by an 80s Democratic president would have been worse in the long-term for progressives than what actually happened.

If Ford won, the GOP might not have drifted so far right. Carter's election in 1976 is what allowed for Reagan to be elected in 1980. A mediocre second Ford term from 1977 to 1981 means a Democratic victory in 1980.
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« Reply #20 on: August 03, 2017, 12:23:10 AM »
Quote from: Let Dogs Survive on August 02, 2017, 10:26:20 PM
Still Carter.

Keep Bob Dole in Kansas, keep Cheney, Kissinger, and Rumsfled as far away from any kind of power as possible


I wouldn't say that Carter's victory achieved any of those other than Kissinger.
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« Reply #21 on: August 03, 2017, 09:41:06 AM »
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« Reply #22 on: August 03, 2017, 10:05:54 AM »
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« Reply #23 on: August 03, 2017, 10:12:10 AM »
Both are FFs, its really tough for me to say who I would pick with or without hindsight. Perhaps without hindsight, in 1976, I would have picked Carter, even though Ford was my kind of Republican. But with hindsight, maybe Ford, because as it was said above, maybe that would mean no President Reagan.
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« Reply #24 on: August 03, 2017, 10:36:12 AM »
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