The party machinery ran Anderson as a 3rd party candidate in 1980 in an attempt to stop Reagan and hand the election to Carter.
The party machinery ran Anderson as a 3rd party candidate in 1980 in an attempt to stop Reagan and hand the election to Carter.
I remember it well. Didn’t exactly work out the way they planned, did it? Without John Anderson, Carter would probably have won 3-4 more New England states + New York, converting Reagan’s mere 44 state landslide into 39 states or so.