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A lovely POD is the Swine Flu non-epidemic of 1975. Ford, on advice of the CDC, ordered a massive innoculation campaign for a flu epidemic that never arrived. It made him look like a bumbling idiot (which he wasn't) and could have been worth a few hundred thousand votes in a very close election. What if the epidemic actually hit, and Ford was seen as the man who had saved thousands of lives?

Anyways, Ford manages to harvest enough votes because of this POD and narrowly beats Carter in the '76 elections (and perhaps other POD's such an unfortunate blackout in the studio where Ford prematurely liberated Poland). Ford get's inaugerated on 20 January, 1977. Now what?

Ford is going to face all the tough problems of the late 1970s: Iran, oil crisis, stagflation and so on. I assume that a Democrat wins in 1980. How would a second Ford term look like?
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