Months before Election Day, the name of Jimmy Carter had assumed an incantatory power among observers of politics. President Obama’s supporters began to fret that his presidency was declining as Carter’s did, while his opponents salivated at the prospect, as though the more the 39th president was mentioned, the worse the chances of the 44th. In addition to columnists and bloggers, historians Walter Russell Mead and Sean Wilentz have written on the comparison, while Carter’s vice president, Walter Mondale, has worried over it. Carter himself recently discussed it...
Source: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/2010/11/14/obama_the_next_george_hw_bush_245763.html
Sheldon Whitehouse Sherrod Brown Susan Collins Ted Kaufman Ted Kennedy
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