DBWI: Jimmy Carter wins the nomination for President in 1976

So, as you may or may not know, the Democratic presidential primaries in 1976 was split between Jimmy Carter and Jerry Brown. Both had hoped to challenge incumbent President Gerald Ford. However, the eventual winner of the primary was Jerry Brown who won the New Hampshire primary, and would run the momentum to the convention, where he would win the nomination and later the Presidency. However, Carter was apparently close to winning the New Hampshire primary. What if he did win, and later got the momentum to win the nomination. Would he have been able to win? What would have been his policies? Would he have gotten a second term like Brown did (barely)?
 
I think Ford was basically doomed after the Nixon Pardon. As for that last question, I always tended to think Brown's '80 victory had more to do with the absolute mess of the RNC that year in the three-way split between Bush, Reagan, and Dole and the fact the party establishment sided with Dole over Bush or Reagan who clearly beat him in the DC/pop vote going into the convention. Maybe I'm wrong, and someone with a better grasp of Brown's record of accomplishments could fill us in and prove me wrong.
 
Maybe Carter would militarily intervene to put the Shah back in power in Iran? In his 1980 Senate campaign he announced that he strongly opposed letting the Shah "be murdered by revolutionary mobs" and was rather hawkish in his first two terms. After he got reelected in 92 after the end of the Cold War he became one of the most dovish senators though, so who knows.
 

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Maybe Carter would militarily intervene to put the Shah back in power in Iran? In his 1980 Senate campaign he announced that he strongly opposed letting the Shah "be murdered by revolutionary mobs" and was rather hawkish in his first two terms. After he got reelected in 92 after the end of the Cold War he became one of the most dovish senators though, so who knows.

Eesh, that would have been a clusterfuck of a war.
 
Does anyone remember Carter's wife? We wouldn't have had Linda Ronstadt as First Lady.

Which would have butterflied away all those music-world sex-and-drug scandals that got linked, however tenuously, to "the Ronstadts" by GOP partisans. All that rumourmongering likely contributed to Brown's reduced showing in the 1980 election.

Hard to imagine anyone in the Carter family being linked to substance abuse.
 
Maybe Carter would militarily intervene to put the Shah back in power in Iran? In his 1980 Senate campaign he announced that he strongly opposed letting the Shah "be murdered by revolutionary mobs" and was rather hawkish in his first two terms. After he got reelected in 92 after the end of the Cold War he became one of the most dovish senators though, so who knows.

I thought he always was Dovish. Didn't he vote against intervening in Afghanistan? Anyway, a war in Iran would probably go over better, than the few botched military operations to save the Shah and the American hostages.

Here's something. If a Carter administration was more hawkish, would Scoop Jackson not run as an independent in 1980?
 
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