Gerald Ford vs. Jimmy Carter: Who has your vote?

[Kingpoleon]

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%.

[Kingpoleon]

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.

[Kingpoleon]

The candidate who supported the Equal Rights Amendment, didn't consider ketchup a vegetable, didn't use the phrases "welfare queen" or "states' rights", didn't tell tobacco farmers that he supported them, considered the war on drugs a low priority, and defeated Reagan in a primary has my vote.

To be fair, Carter was the last Presidential nominee to actually take two sides on many issues over the course of one campaign. Down South, he would talk about the tyranny of forced busing, and up north he could talk about how great affirmative action is.