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McGovern (& family) voted for Ford in 1976
Major cutting. h/t: The CornerMCGOVERN: I have to tell you something I've never said before publicly. I voted for [Ford] in 1976. KING: What? MCGOVERN: When he yes, I did. And at Thanksgiving dinner that year, I never said anything about this to Eleanor or to her five children. But I told them at Thanksgiving time I had voted for President Ford, even though he lost. And I told them why, because I thought he had come in at a difficult time. I didn't know President Carter very well then. And I just felt more comfortable somehow with Gerry Ford. Whereupon my wife Eleanor said, so did I vote for him. We went around that table this is hard to believe all five of my kids voted for him. So they get seven votes out of the McGovern family for President Ford and Senator Dole, my long-time Republican friend. I voted for Carter again in 1980. So with my brand of political luck, I voted against Carter when he won, I voted for him when he lost. But I can justify both of those votes.
McGovern has it backwards. I would have voted for Carter in '76 when I was young and foolish (more reason to not let 14-year olds have the vote. The first vote I ever cast, months after turning 18, was for Ronald Reagan (OK, electors pledged to him), the top of the ticket. Posted by: Jackal 2007-01-04 |
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