Yes, especially if third rate dictators continue to laugh at America (last debate is about foreign policy). Funny enough, a major blockbuster Hollywood flick about Carter's Iranian Hostage Crisis is being released on October 12. The film is called Argo and stars Ben Affleck and Bryan Cranston. Yes, Hollywood is going to refresh the memories of older voters about how weak Carter was, inevitably drawing parallels with Obama's recent weakness in the Middle East (No, you cannot make this sh**t up). The jobs report for October on the Friday right before the election is also unusually bad luck for the Obama campaign.
The last time a debate happened this late in the year: Yep, you guessed it, 1980.
For some reason, your obsession with connecting 2012 to 1980 reminds me of Glenn Beck and his blackboard, only less entertaining.