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In the discussion thread: What is the worst run presidential campaign you've ever seen? [View all]

Thu Sep 20, 2012, 04:18 PM

hifiguy (13,029 posts)

40. No one could have beaten Raygun in 1984.

I was in college, and University Democrats at the time. The economy was starting to rebound pretty well and Raygun was an amiable idiot who made the rest of the idiots feel good about themselves and their prejudices. He also had a masterful media team. A ticket of Jesus and the Dalai Lama would have gotten stomped that year.

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53 replies	Author	Time	Post
What is the worst run presidential campaign you've ever seen? [View all]	Curtland1015	Sep 2012	OP
Nothing comes close to this. Not even Goldwater. nt	bemildred	Sep 2012	#1
Just out of curiousity, what were Goldwater's missteps?	Tommy_Carcetti	Sep 2012	#6
"Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice." Frightening stuff.	11 Bravo	Sep 2012	#17
Been reading up on it a little. These bits stand out:	Curtland1015	Sep 2012	#24
He was another right-wing pseudo-populist-oligarch. He would be a Teahadi now, or McCain.	bemildred	Sep 2012	#27
Need you ask?	aint_no_life_nowhere	Sep 2012	#2
Romney's making his case. But there is something to be said about John McCain's decision...	Tommy_Carcetti	Sep 2012	#3
I've never seen anything this bad.	liberalmuse	Sep 2012	#4
I'm a senior	goclark	Sep 2012	#11
This message was self-deleted by its author	bigtree	Sep 2012	#5
bob dole	bigtree	Sep 2012	#7
actually Ford closed a humungous gap	dsc	Sep 2012	#15
This one takes the prize.	Indpndnt	Sep 2012	#8
McCain's was the biggest train wreck I can remember. Although	sufrommich	Sep 2012	#9
Holy crap. I forgot all about McCain suspending his campaign.	Curtland1015	Sep 2012	#14
+1!	uponit7771	Sep 2012	#38
I've heard that's exactly what happened.	k2qb3	Sep 2012	#41
It was this week 4 years ago McCain suspended his campaign and it was a slow roll from there	NotThisTime	Sep 2012	#43
McCain was a better candidate, though.	Quantess	Sep 2012	#18
We're "in the moment" with the Romney campaign though. I think in	sufrommich	Sep 2012	#26
I was around for Goldwater's campaign	cleduc	Sep 2012	#10
Definitely this one	XemaSab	Sep 2012	#12
Bachmann's campaign was predictably short-lived ...	lpbk2713	Sep 2012	#13
This is a disaster	Aerows	Sep 2012	#16
Walter Mondale got destroyed.	MrSlayer	Sep 2012	#19
McGovern was worse than Mondale...	WI_DEM	Sep 2012	#22
I don't remember that one though.	MrSlayer	Sep 2012	#36
Missouri senator Thomas Eagleton.	trof	Sep 2012	#46
Having his nomination speech at 3:00 AM didn't do anyone any good.	WCGreen	Sep 2012	#52
We are in the hard weeks now	Aerows	Sep 2012	#25
Every day for most of the last three weeks	hifiguy	Sep 2012	#33
You may have a point. When Mitt woke up yesterday, he thought he was	Ikonoklast	Sep 2012	#44
No one could have beaten Raygun in 1984.	hifiguy	Sep 2012	#40
So far Willard is taking the cake.	WI_DEM	Sep 2012	#20
Mitt has 45 more days to finish the job of the worst ever. Give him time.	vinny9698	Sep 2012	#21
For me that would be McGovern, 1972.	GreenStormCloud	Sep 2012	#23
Yeah, the "I'm still behind him 1000%" and then dumped him shortly thereafter.	trof	Sep 2012	#47
I don't know, but Obama is running the best campaign I ever saw	Kolesar	Sep 2012	#28
Dole and Dukakis were not at all good.	hifiguy	Sep 2012	#29
You mean a party nominee, right? Dick Nixon, 1972	McCamy Taylor	Sep 2012	#30
How WAS Nixon so popular back then?	Curtland1015	Sep 2012	#34
The "Southern Strategy" that's how.	bemildred	Sep 2012	#37
LBJ correctly predicted "We've lost the southern vote for a generation" s he signed the Civil Rights	trof	Sep 2012	#49
If you can call 30 years shortly	dsc	Sep 2012	#53
I'm watching it now.	gkhouston	Sep 2012	#31
McCain-Palin	sakabatou	Sep 2012	#32
Hello? Does the name Rick Perry ring a bell?	NoPasaran	Sep 2012	#35
Willard Romney's.	sinkingfeeling	Sep 2012	#39
Dukakis was the worst.	former9thward	Sep 2012	#42
3 things did him in.	trof	Sep 2012	#50
I think we're watching it unfold.	Lugnut	Sep 2012	#45
I would nominate this one....Romney/Ryan but I was a teenager	Grammy23	Sep 2012	#48
Without a doubt, McGovern....	WCGreen	Sep 2012	#51

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