“I disagree, I think anybody would have beaten Carter in 1980 by a landslide.”
The media were still pimping for him, just as they are for the Bamtard, and there were plenty of idiots who would have supported him against a Bob Dole or Juan McLame. I remember.
“He was very unpopular.”
He was nowhere nearly as unpopular then as he is now.
Clinton was very unpopular, but the media covered that up and released dishonest polls that made him look popular.
I don’t think anybody hated Carter as deeply as many people hated, and still hate, Beelzebubba.
“He was even callenged in the primaries by his own party.”
No, he was challenged by other individuals who sought the Evil Party’s nomination. The Evil Party chose Carter.
Carter’s downfall was presiding over a lousy economy that he made worse and the doubling of the price of gas in the year before the election. Obama is heading down the same path. As much as the people may be unhappy with Obama today, he is not being challenged in the primaries as Carter was. This tells me that Carter was not as liked or feared by his fellow ‘rats in 1980 as Obama is today. Clinton was lucky that the Republicans won the Senate and House in 1994 and fixed the economy he was in the process of wrecking. He got re-elected only because the economy was strong in 1996. Obama does not have that going for him and the economy is arguably as bad as it was in 1980. I believe anybody would have beaten Carter in 1980 and if things continue as they are, anybody, including Levin’s empty orange juice can will beat Obama in November. The thing that worries me is that if we select a weak candidate unwilling or unable to make the changes necessary to fix our problems, we will be looking at another ‘Rat president in 2016 to finish what Obama started. A Republican president who tries to maintain the status quo will be almost as big a disaster for the nation as re-electing Obama.