1976: Ronald Regan vs. Jimmy Carter

[Dancing with Myself]

Regan beats Ford at the Republican Convention. Everything stays the same with the Democrats.

You choose the VP's and how it ends up.

[Dancing with Myself]

Carter/Mondale-326 EV
Reagan/Bush-212 EV

What happened?

[Dancing with Myself]

Reagan/Bush-330
Carter/Mondale-208

Reagan chooses Bush due to his associations with The Republican Bosses. Carter tries to make it look like Regan as an extreme Conservative, but Reagan paints carter as an Incompetent one term Governor who struggled to get anything done.

[Dancing with Myself]

Reagan/Bush-330
Carter/Mondale-208

Reagan chooses Bush due to his associations with The Republican Bosses. Carter tries to make it look like Regan as an extreme Conservative, but Reagan paints carter as an Incompetent one term Governor who struggled to get anything done.

Carrter really wasn't incompetent as Georgia Governor. Only as President. And I think Carter's arguments would ahve much more merit since the U.S. had plenty of liberal Presidents between 1933 and 1980, but had no conservative Presidents during that time (the last conservative President before 1980 was Hoover, so Carter could always tie Reagan to him).

BUT, Hoover is completely different than Reagan. Reagan would attack carter for making useless attacks