1980 Flashback: Reagan and Carter Stand Nearly Even in Last Polls [CBS/NYT Poll]

The New York Times Archives | November 3, 1980 | Adam Clymer

[nwrep]

Reagan and Carter Even in Last Polls [pdf]

[Vigilanteman]

The poll which mattered the most.

[TomB]

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[nwrep]

Go through your local library's online system and you can access the same archives for free.

[scottinoc]

We'd better get to work or Carter's gonna be re-elected! It's gonna be close. By the way, this NYT writer is a minor-leaguer, but he has the potential to be a major league clymer some day.

[RightWhale]

Remember the exchange that threw the election into Reagan's column. Carter had just delivered a closely reasoned series of comments. Reagan said, "There you go again." Reagan picked up enough votes to win in that moment. Analyze that.

[TomB]

Go through your local library's online system and you can access the same archives for free.

That isn't the point. You posted the title of an article and the link is password only. Can't you even bother to post a few paragraphs with the relevant information?

I would be nice to have more information than a title.

[nwrep]

Unfortunately, the pdf document is a scanned image, so I am unable to cut and paste text.

I will try to post a few main points from the document.

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Carter had just delivered a closely reasoned series of comments. Reagan said, "There you go again." Reagan picked up enough votes to win in that moment. Analyze that.

Carter had just delivered a closely reasoned series of comments which took for granted that Reagan was a wild man.

Reagan - as history before and since that debate shows - was actually more prudent than Carter.

Carter's charges were calumny, and Reagan's soft reply, "There you go again," made that clear. When Reagan did not take the bait, Carter's hopes of fooling the voters went aglimmering.

[nwrep]

TomB, would you like me to email it to you? If so, please send me you email via freepmail.

Do you have access to webspace where you can post it?

[TomB]

If it is a .pdf file, just highlight the appropriate text and copy it (right click - copy).

[conservatism_IS_compassion]

Reagan picked up enough votes to win in that moment. Analyze that.

I intended to add that there is patently something wrong with a campaign system when the fate of the Republic depends so heavily on the fact that Reagan was not only prudent but quick-witted. And, let's face it, telegenic.

And the other point is that journalism will always try to keep the race close if a conservative is in front.

[MNJohnnie]

Remember the exchange that threw the election into Reagan's column. Carter had just delivered a closely reasoned series of comments. Reagan said, "There you go again." Reagan picked up enough votes to win in that moment. Analyze that.

No Carter made the sort of Leftist phycobabble "Nuanaced" anwer so loved by the DNC directed News media and Political Sci students and the good people of the US looked at each other as said "How did this nut get to be President?" Reagan said the same thing just with more grace.

[RightWhale]

That's true. Also, it showed that Carter was following a script written by his political consultants, while Reagan was speaking for himself. A rare thing in politics--honesty.

[nwrep]

If it is a .pdf file, just highlight the appropriate text and copy it (right click - copy).

It is pdf, but the text was scanned as an image of a newspaper column, so it cannot be selected or recognized as text or copied.

[RightWhale]

True, the eggheads like to throw the entire history of political theory into their pronouncements as a begged question and shout down anything that is orthogonal to their dimension. None of them are mathematicians.

[TomB]

I understand. I missed were you said that it was a scanned article.

You have freepmail.

[yonif]

I was able to access it.