“Jesus Christ himself would have lost to Carter in ‘76.”
Yeah, especially if Jesus Christ had pardoned Nixon.
Perhaps, Jesus Christ would have lost to Carter in ‘76’.
Gerald Ford would have won if he kept his promise to Paul Hall, President of the Seafarers International Union, AFL-CIO.
Ford had promised to support cargo preference legislation that would have required 20% (40%?) of all petroleum products imported into US be shipped in American built and American crewed tankers (not a good piece of legislation IMHO). Hall, also an AFL-CIO vice president and supporter of President Nixon to the very end was prepared to support Ford. Ford killed the legislation with a pocket veto after promising to support it. Hall was to say the least upset and swung the entire maritime industry including east coast longshoremen to Carter. The rest as they say is history.
But if Hall had supported Ford, he (Ford) would have carried New York state.