Wednesday, August 26, 2009

TED KENNEDY AND THE 1980 CAMPAIGN TRAIL


"No more hostages and no more Jimmy Carter," were the words out of Ted Kennedy's mouth as he took on incumbent Carter in 1980 in the Democractic Primaries. After losing rather handily to the President whose approval rating was near 30 percent nationally, Republican challenger Ronald Reagan took Kennedy's speech and threw it in a campaign commercial. Watch the ad

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