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Where Were You In 1976?
Me

Posted on 10/17/2004 7:52:00 PM PDT by bjcoop

It was Carter Vs. Ford, so where were you during the course of that election and when Carter claimed his victory(unfortunately). It was a pretty close race.


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To: bjcoop

I choose not to think about the 70s.


21 posted on 10/17/2004 7:56:18 PM PDT by MisterRepublican
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To: bjcoop

I was nine and remember watching it with my father on TV.


22 posted on 10/17/2004 7:56:33 PM PDT by Lancer_N3502A
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To: bjcoop
Don't know why you asked a question about an election that took place back when ice covered the Earth. But during that election, I was General Counsel to Gene McCarthy, who was running as an independent. If we had gotten Gene on just a few more state ballots, most importantly New York, we could have drawn enough votes to cost Carter a few states and get Jerry Ford elected.

How's that for arcane behavior in 19 and 76?

Congressman Billybob

Latest column, "Mein Fuhrer, I Can Valk!"

23 posted on 10/17/2004 7:56:54 PM PDT by Congressman Billybob (Visit: www.ArmorforCongress.com please.)
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To: bjcoop

I was in The Honor Guard in DC when Carter won. Lord help me I hated that man.


24 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:01 PM PDT by chesty_puller (USMC 2D Combined Action Group Viet Nam 70-71)
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To: bjcoop

Junior in High School before summer, senior by the time of the election.

I campaigned for Ford, debated in mock elections against Carter. I didn't like Ford but I knew Carter was going to be a disaster.

I also campaigned for J. P. Hammerschmidt against Bill Clinton in a US Congressional race. Clinton lost big time.


25 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:09 PM PDT by Fledermaus (Kerry is a Nuanced Nusiance!)
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To: bjcoop
I was on the Reagan team. I wasn't too disappointed.
26 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:10 PM PDT by bayourod (Old Media news is poll driven, not fact driven, not event driven, not newsworthy driven.)
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To: bjcoop

Freshman in college. I would laugh as SNL made fun of both sides.

I was exploring my politicism -- I think I took a fly at Socialsim about then. It took me a little while to figure out just how stupid a political philosophy that is, and understanding it well, develop a lifetime emnity towards it.


27 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:11 PM PDT by freedumb2003 (The cool points are out the window, and you got me all twisted up in the game)
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To: bjcoop

I wasnt alive. :)


28 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:18 PM PDT by GOP_Raider (Conservative, Republican, Raider fan, Yankee Hater)
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To: Stellar Dendrite

Stationed at Ft Riley Kansas, 1st infantry division, and busy doing what I could to help Mr Ford. We knew Carter was going to be really bad for the military. AND HE WAS!!

John Danforth
SFC USA (ret)


29 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:32 PM PDT by JohnD9207 (Lead...follow...or get the HELL out of the way!)
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To: republicanwizard
If you were a husband, you were carefully watching your wife, lest the President-Elect set his eyes on her. That's just my guess. I'm only 20.

Ah, well, he only committed adultery in his heart.

As for me, I was probably potty-training and tormenting my baby sister.
30 posted on 10/17/2004 7:57:38 PM PDT by GoBucks2002
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To: bjcoop

I was a newlywed at the age of 19. Gee was I stupid.


31 posted on 10/17/2004 7:58:06 PM PDT by Clintons Are White Trash (Helen Thomas, Molly Ivins, Maureen Dowd - The Axis of Ugly)
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To: republicanwizard
Working in Manhattan near the WTC. Out of the service by a year and a half. I got sucked into the zero based budget plan by Carter, and the fact he served on nuclear submarines (which he never did) and the SNL skits about Ford being a pathetic athlete. Turns our Gerald Ford is considered the most athletic president in history, based on his college football career.
So yeah, I have some responsibilty for the peanut farmer. Ford earned some of it with his WIN (wip inflation now) buttons. He was way over his head.
32 posted on 10/17/2004 7:58:22 PM PDT by ProudVet77 (Flush "John Fonda Kerry")
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To: bjcoop

I was 17, not old enough to vote. I wish I had saved my "WIN" button. :-)


33 posted on 10/17/2004 7:58:57 PM PDT by JellyJam (Headline of the year: "The Painful Truth: All the World Terrorists Are Muslims!")
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To: Billthedrill
"On an undercover mission in Olongapo."

it hasn't been 50 years; we can't release that info yet...

34 posted on 10/17/2004 7:59:32 PM PDT by hoot2
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To: bjcoop

I was in first grade, I think.


35 posted on 10/17/2004 7:59:53 PM PDT by wingnutx (tanstaafl)
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To: bjcoop

OK...I'll admit it...I voted for Carter...needed a drastic change...but before you beat up on me...I voted for Reagan the next time around and vowed never to vote Democrate again...and thank God...I never had a reason to...


36 posted on 10/17/2004 8:00:01 PM PDT by Hotdog
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To: bjcoop

I voted for Carter. What an embarrassment.


37 posted on 10/17/2004 8:00:03 PM PDT by Jorge
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To: bjcoop

I had just entered Kindergarten in September. White milk was 10 cents, chocolate milk was 15 cents. That's pretty much what mattered at the moment.


38 posted on 10/17/2004 8:00:15 PM PDT by rocky88 (" John Kerry has no such clear, precise and consistent vision." - Rudy Guiliani)
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To: bjcoop

I was in the 2nd grade I believe. I remember one of my classmates was running around the school telling everybody that if Ford was elected he was going to make us kids go to school 365 days a year - no summer break! She got a lot of other kids saying the same thing. Damn, the Democrats sure do start their kids young on the fear mongering!


39 posted on 10/17/2004 8:00:28 PM PDT by Avenger
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To: Lancer_N3502A

I was nine, all jammin' all year to K.C. & Sunshine Band at my grandma's washateria in Dallas. (I made a mint pulling currency out of the dryer filters).


40 posted on 10/17/2004 8:00:30 PM PDT by txhurl (...it would NOT tilt the election one way or the other.)
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