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The 2020 Democratic primary shares a lot of the fundamentals with the 1976 Democratic primary... and what worked for Jimmy Carter has a lot to do with why people have not liked the Beto lonely man on the road tour
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Beto O’Rourke, Jimmy Carter, And The Power Of Love
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If you read enough about the 1976 election, you start to see some real parallels between then and now, and one of the big ones is Carter responded very directly to people's burn out buzzfeednews.com/article/kather…
If you want to read more about 1976 (including the Reagan primary challenge), "Marathon" by Jules Whitcover is exhaustive on the basics of the campaign year
This Sally Quinn profile of Carter is actually pretty interesting
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This Fred Harris (who ran a very populist/liberal campaign) interview reads very outta 2019
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This Fred Harris (who ran a very populist/liberal campaign) interview reads very outta 2019
rollingstone.com/culture/cultur…
Also worth checking out this Fred Barnes piece from 1986 about political consulting in the New Republic, which reads pretty familiarly (minus the internet) documentcloud.org/documents/5689…
Missed this last week, but Kamala Harris’s advisers apparently view the 2020 election through that 1976 lens, as well vanityfair.com/news/2019/01/k…
