Fuzzy Says: "Abolish NPR!"
Fuzzy Bear
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« on: February 16, 2017, 11:29:41 AM » |
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There was an unusual US Senate race that year. Incumbent Harry F. Byrd, Jr (I) ran against Adm. Elmo Zumwalt (D). Byrd voted with the Democrats in the Senate, but voted pretty much like a Republican, and Zumwalt was associated with Carter. There was no Repubican in the Senate race.
I suspect that if Byrd had run unopposed, or if Byrd had only a Republican opponent (but no Democrat), Carter might have won. Byrd beat Zumwalt with something like 58% of the vote, and Carter only lost VA by 1.34%, so little things might have meant a lot here.
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