DBWI: Jimmy Carter not assassinated?

As we all know Jimmy Carter while planning to run for reelection was shot dead by Osvaldo Ortiz during A speech to the Civic Center Mall. Could Carter have won reelection despite his low approval numbers ? What would have changed had he been alive?
 
Don’t know but it was a weird, weird time for presidents. Carter shot dead after Squeaky Fromme almost got Ford, Mondale runs on his memory and squeaks one past Reagan and then HE gets whacked by deranged mental patient John Hinckley Jr. All stopped when President Moonbeam of all people managed to survive an assassin’s bullet in 1986 from a disgruntled former federal employee who was pissed about his job in the DEA going away.

I think if Mondale could beat that whack job Reagan then there’s no reason Carter couldn’t. That is, assuming he’s willing to partner with the Canadians for Operation Argo and get those hostages the fuck out of Iran, leaving the Ayatollah with a mountain of egg on his face. No idea how he recovered from that - oh yeah, of course, a mix of an improved economy and good old-fashioned religious repression.
 
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