Anybody But Carter 1976.

who could beat Jimmy Carter?

  • Jerry Brown

    Votes: 6 21.4%
  • Robert Byrd

    Votes: 3 10.7%
  • Hubert Humphrey

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Frank Church

    Votes: 2 7.1%
  • Henry M. "Scoop" Jackson

    Votes: 7 25.0%
  • Adlai Stevenson III

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Mo Udall

    Votes: 7 25.0%
  • George Wallace

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • other (who?)

    Votes: 3 10.7%

  • Total voters
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if a Democrat were to beat Jimmy Carter in the primaries who would it be? would they win the election, and if so what would there presidency
 

Xen

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Being a West Virginian I'd have to go with Byrd. I'd hate to see him go as a Senator though (which would give that position to Arch Moore *shudders*)
 

Xen

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Byrd is a good guy and a great Senator but his past with the KKK makes him more or less unelectable

You're also talking about 1976, not 2008. Unless the Republicans go with Reagan, I think almost anybody the Democrats run will win, by how much is a different story.
 
You're also talking about 1976, not 2008. Unless the Republicans go with Reagan, I think almost anybody the Democrats run will win, by how much is a different story.

Ford Vs. Carter was a very very close race, Carter didn't win by the landslide one would he he would.
 

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Ford Vs. Carter was a very very close race, Carter didn't win by the landslide one would he he would.

Youre also talking about Carter, nice guy but very incompetent. Byrd is more charismatic, and is not incompetent in the least, even at the ripe old age of 90 he is more competent than alot of people involved in the game now.
 
Youre also talking about Carter, nice guy but very incompetent. Byrd is more charismatic, and is not incompetent in the least, even at the ripe old age of 90 he is more competent than alot of people involved in the game now.

he Filibustered the Civil Rights Act of 1964 of 14 hours! he was in the Ku Klux Klan for maybe 10 years!

thats why he wasn't President in OTL.
 
If Carter lost, it would have had to been either to Ted Kennedy (who was sufffering from Chippaquidick) or Jerry Brown (who was,...well...I don't know what his problem was).
 
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I'd be betting on Scoop Jackson. A veteran Senator with moderately conservative policies across the board, except for being a real defense tough man.
 
Udall never did win any primaries. The closest he came was Wisconsin, where he was expected to win, and 2 of the networks called it for him, but Carter wound up beating him by one point.
I voted for Jackson. He was somewhat conservative, so was acceptible to republicans. He was also supported by big labour. But Carter knocked him out early on. In mid=season Jerry 'Gov. Moonbeam' Brown won maryland, then started winning primaries; also Frank Church won Nebraska and some other states in the NW, all this gave Carter a scare, particuarly when Brown won California, but Carter managed to pull it off.
 
Who are all these people? I voted for Mo Udall cause he had the funniest name.

Senator Mo Udall was actually pretty cool, and seriously funny.

Jerry Brown was the Governor of California, and a winner of several late primaries against Carter (too late to matter, though). He's mostly known for being a kook, sleeping in an empty room, and other things—he could be seen, on a policy basis, as an early DLC style Democrat.

Scoop Jackson was a moderate to conservative Senate Democrat, with strongly neo-conservative foreign policy views.

George Wallace was the rather racist former Governor of Alabama, former American Independence Party candidate for the Presidency in 1968, and did fairly well in the 1972 Democratic primaries.

Hubert Humphrey was a New Deal liberal icon, long-time Senator, Vice-President from 1965-69, and Democratic Presidential nominee in 1968 (and came very close to getting the 1972 nomination as well).

Robert Byrd is the longest serving Senator (ever) known for his racist past, although he now regrets it. Generally speaking he's somewhat conservative, and is a master of the parliamentary rules of the US Senate.

Frank Church was a US Senator, and like most people in the 1976 Democratic race was running because the government provided matching funds for the first time (following the Watergate reforms). Most notable is his strong environmental record. He was an early opponent of the Viet Nam war, and had a very high foreign policy profile.
 
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