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Flashback - Carter's Acceptance of Defeat in 1980

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Posted by Bobby 2020-11-19 11:07|| || Front Page|| [9 views ] Top

#1 Give Jimmy Carter credit for at least this other thing:

He said that voting by mail was highly susceptible to fraud.

Posted by Lord Garth 2020-11-19 11:57|| 2020-11-19 11:57|| Front Page Top

#2 ^ so did Liz Warren and Amy Klobuchar. And the US State Department and ...

Posted by Betty Thrush9410 2020-11-19 12:21|| 2020-11-19 12:21|| Front Page Top

#3 Both Pubs and Dems didn't like Carter.

Posted by JohnQC 2020-11-19 14:41|| 2020-11-19 14:41|| Front Page Top

#4 The real lesson of the carter acceptance of defeat was that he conceded so early that they believe it convinced a lot of Dems in California to not go out to vote and thus the GOP did really well on ballots and lower level stuff. I think both parties noticed that and came up with don't concede until later policies even if it's obvious.

Posted by rjschwarz 2020-11-19 14:48|| 2020-11-19 14:48|| Front Page Top

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