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SURVEY FINDS CARTER'S POPULARITY HAS RISEN SHARPLY ON IRAN CRISISLink to tweet
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https://www.nytimes.com/1979/12/10/archives/survey-finds-carters-popularity-has-risen-sharply-in-iran-crisis.html
uponit7771
(90,353 posts)lame54
(35,313 posts)uponit7771
(90,353 posts)... images of overflowing beds and hospitals etc come in then Red Don's numbers should crater if the M$M is going to go that far.
teamster633
(2,029 posts)renate
(13,776 posts)What a loser.
lame54
(35,313 posts)WyattKansas
(1,648 posts)Do not let him turn it into a come support me moment as the COVID-19 gets worse and effects his base.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)was the failure of the attempted rescue mission. It tied in nicely with the GOP's talking point about Democrats being soft on defense, and having cut back on defense spending.
Also, Carter's human rights criticisms of the Shah of Iran was a contributing factor in Khomeni's rise to power.
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)Of no resolution, and an economy that was crazy--rising unemployment and high inflation.
Aquaria
(1,076 posts)There were long lines at stations to get any gas at all.
customerserviceguy
(25,183 posts)All those things did combine to do him in.
Even Shrub kept his popularity until dragging us into Iraq on the false charge of WMD.