Word: forded
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Wednesday afternoon, Carter could be certain of only a 56-vote electoral margin. He had won 23 states and the District of Columbia?297 electoral votes. Ford had won 27 states with 241 votes. In no fewer than seven states the electoral winner was determined by roughly 1% of the votes. Carter's popular vote edge was more substantial. In actual votes, Carter won by almost 2 million, or 51% to Ford's 48%, greater than the bare victories of either Jack Kennedy in 1960 (49.7%) or Richard Nixon...
...sense Carter had won in a year in which nearly any respectable Democrat should have triumphed. While Gerald Ford could hardly be held accountable, the Republicans had presided over a lingering end to the Viet Nam War, had both produced and been victimized by the nation's worst political scandal, had seen their party's President and Vice President resign in disgrace, and had held office during the deepest postwar recession. Ford had pardoned the man who appointed...
...thus a tribute to Ford's astonishing persistence, his own achievements in helping to pull his party out of the quagmire he had inherited, and his own basic decency that he ran as close a race as he did. It was also a measure of the nation's doubts about Carter that the race was so close...
...they see in Carter, as against the mysteries they still find in his personality. Clearly, when they finally made up their minds in one of the most indecisive voting moods in modern times, they based their choice on the potential of Carter rather than on the relatively predictable, limited Ford they know...
Even as the Gallup poll taken last weekend showed that his lead had evaporated and Ford had edged ahead by a statistically insignificant 1%, Carter's final appearances as he raced to Los Angeles, Fort Worth, Dallas, San Francisco and Flint, Mich., drew rousing, cheering crowds. He responded with some of his most effective, eloquent oratory since the campaign had begun. Even some last-minute Ford campaign ads attacking Carter's record as Governor of Georgia and misrepresenting his position on taxes failed to maintain the momentum that the President had been building...