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Obviously he would still have lost without it. But people forget how much the grain embargo hurt Carter in the farm states in 1980. In 1976 he got 46 percent in ND and 49 percent in SD. In 1980 he got 26 percent in ND, and less than 32 percent in SD. That's way more than his nine point drop in the US as a whole. In 1976, Carter got 45 percent in Kansas, despite Dole being Ford's running mate; in 1980 that was down to 33 percent... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1976_United_States_presidential_election https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1980_United_States_presidential_election
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