Compare And Contrast Carter Vs Reagan

Carter v. Reagan The Unites States of America came to be by the signing of The Declaration of Independence on July 4th, 1776 and ever since then there have been great leaders elected to run this great country. There have been 56 presidential elections in the 240 years of the United States. In the election of 1980, Democrat nominee Jimmy Carter, was running for a second term against Republican nominee Ronald Reagan. However, the process to get it down to just these two candidates was not quick and easy. In the three years prior to the outcome of the election of 1980, things were much different with respect to who had control. Both the White House and Congress were controlled by the Democrats, with Jimmy Carter in the White House after

Bush (R), John B. Anderson (R), Jimmy Carter (D), and Ted Kennedy (D). Each of the candidates went into the convention with a fair shot and an equal opportunity to be heard, but Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter were the so-called favorites from the beginning. George H.W. Bush was starting from scratch when he first began campaigning, so he had to get his name out there. He went to countless political events and traveled hundreds of miles. He talked himself up by pointing out his years and huge range of government experience, something he had over the other candidates. He was the former director of the CIA and a member of the House of Representatives (A&E Television Networks, 2015). One of the most famous things that Bush said was when he called Reagan’s plan for tax cuts “voodoo economics” (Cannon, 2016). Reagan’s strategy was basically just to aim to fix everything that Carter did during his term in office. He ran under the slogan “are you really better off than you were 4 years ago?” Reagan also had a long list of experience that helped his credibility such as he was a senator, activist, and spoke on Capital Hill several times (Presidential Campaign Slogans, 2016). Carter emphasized all his wrongdoings and how he was going to fix them but in the process he said he wanted to reinstate the military draft, which caused him to lose almost all of his younger generation supporters (Teller, 2005). Kennedy, who was running against Carter, quite literally disagreed with everything Carter said and rephrased the solution in the way that he believed it should be done. Anderson was different in the sense that he did not believe anything that any of the other candidates did and ran under the slogan “I am going to have to make sacrifices today for a better tomorrow” (Presidential Campaign Slogans, 2016). He believed lowering taxes, increasing