Sorry.
The premise itself is so funny ........
About the only way to get Carter re-elected is to completely change the four years he had and the basic personality of the man. So you would end up with someone other than Carter even if your scenario does happen.
I agree, it's pretty hard.
Tis a shame, for Carter would've ended the Cold War a few years earlier.
I agree, it's pretty hard.
Tis a shame, for Carter would've ended the Cold War a few years earlier.
You're getting confused. In 1980, Carter could have been reelected. All that was required was some resolution to the hostage taking. In 1984 Reagan was unbeatable.
With a second Carter Presidency, the issue of course would be the economy and I'm not enough of an economist to guess what would happen. But I do know this, the man given the most credit for getting inflation under control was Paul Voelker, the Fed chairman. Voelker was a Carter appointee.
What if he appoints Paul Volcker earlier? If lucky, he will manage to squeeze inflation out of the economy by the 1980 elections. Then again, we still have Afghanistan and the Iranian Embassy Crisis to worry about.
I nearly spewed my drink all over my computer when I read your comment. Carter's foreign policy was inept. The cold war ends during Carter's 2nd term only if the US throws in the towel regarding strategic arms. Carter took the 1st step toward doing just that w/the 1979 SALT-2 treaty he signed w/Brezhnev. The Senate didn't even ratify it it was so bad.
And? Oil has to drop from crisis level prices. And it was first Carter administration that played Soviets to intervene more and more in Afganistan (its publicly admitted by top administration officials... but of course I'm just lying and dirty commie supporter)
With Soviets in Afghanistan OPEC becomes much more friendly to USA (as in OTL), Oil prices start dropping by mid '80es... and USSR has to go. They shouldn't and couldn't have afforded gaining armaments parity to US in '70es without inflated oil prices... and once those fall... USSR dies.
Its all so silly connected that you have a almost certainty of USSR falling in '90es no matter what they do with any POD past 1980.
You hate Carter because he told you you weren't supperior to everyone else, that God fobird, you actualy had to work and suffer consequences when things go bad, that unlimited consumerism can only lead to disaster. Guess what? Carter didnt cause the Oil Crisis, and that was 90% reason behind your high inflation.
don't forget the hostage chrisis, if he successfully got them out, you might have gotten a rally round the flag situation, it worked for Bush Junior
You have got to be kidding. There is no way that Jimmy Carter could have been re-elected other than stealing the election. In addition to the mess that was US foreign policy there was the 21% inflation rate and considerable unemployment.
I nearly spewed my drink all over my computer when I read your comment. Carter's foreign policy was inept. The cold war ends during Carter's 2nd term only if the US throws in the towel regarding strategic arms. Carter took the 1st step toward doing just that w/the 1979 SALT-2 treaty he signed w/Brezhnev. The Senate didn't even ratify it it was so bad.
You have got to be kidding. There is no way that Jimmy Carter could have been re-elected other than stealing the election. In addition to the mess that was US foreign policy there was the 21% inflation rate and considerable unemployment.