Jimmy Carter for Dean

[Gustaf]

You're welcome. It's all on this very site so it wasn't hard though...

Leip might be saddened by this, we're on the "uselectionatlas site" and this is the second time I point something out to a forum member which was on the site...

interesting i was wondering about IA as that is where he was from, but hit hard by depression. thanks.

He won Connecticut, Pennsylvania, New Hampshire, Maine, Vermont and Delaware. That was it.

what states did hoover still win?

OK, Taft won only Utah and Vermont, a total of 1.5% of the EC and 23% of the popular vote. I think that is the worse result ever.

Agreed.  Hoover did badly also.

Yep, but 10 times as many EVs as Taft.

[jravnsbo]

That is AWESOME!!

When I think of Jimmy Carter I think of the Georgia state abbreviation-GA, which, thanks to Carter, has ceased to stand for Georgia, and now just stands simply for "Go Away"

[NorthernDog]

Does anybody know why Dean is leaving IA to meet Jimmy Carter in GA on 1/18? This seems crazy b/c Carter will not endorse.  Dean's time s/b very carefully managed now.  I think Carter likes the attention and wants to inject himself into the caucus limelight.  Is it kosher for an ex-President to be running around IA with a candidate? I don't remember seeing this b-4

[dazzleman]

I guess Carter will help Dean as much as he helped Mondale.

[Platypus]

Dean is in Georgia to give himself an excuse for not winning Iowa, I think.

[YRABNNRM]

If I was Dean and I was slipping in polls I would've been in Iowa campaigning like heck, not going to have breakfast in GA. Im sure Jimmy Carter could wait.

[dazzleman]

Dean is in Georgia to give himself an excuse for not winning Iowa, I think.

Good point.  After being the clear front-runner for a while now, expectations are very high for Dean.

It's kind of like the stock market's reaction when a company releases earnings.  If the market is expecting a 50% increase in earnings, and it's only 48%, the stock will drop.  But if the market was expecting a 30% increase in earnings, that same 48% increase will make the stock go up.

Same thing with Dean.  He needs to lower expectations of a clear Iowa win, and make a very tight victory, or even a second place finish, seem respectable.  Otherwise, an upset by Kerry or Edwards will seem to be a big victory, while anything short of clear victory is a defeat for Dean.  Ah, the perils of being a front runner.

[Platypus]

Young Repub-Perhaps, but I think he knew he was going to lose, no matter what. His vote is at its saturation point; he isn't going to get any swinging voters. He might get back those he lost to Kerry and Edwards, however.