1. Debbie and I blasted over the 4th of July Pass for an afternoon in Coeur d'Alene, each doing our own thing. Debbie had a salon appointment and I fueled up at Costco, sauntered up and down the aisles of the warehouse, and did some more sauntering at Pilgrim's. I always have fun shopping and Debbie's left the salon happy and with fun stories about conversations she had, especially about Bigfoot. (That was unexpected!)
2. Back in Kellogg, we dropped in at The Lounge. We shared Wah Hing's Appetizer Combo Plate. Ryan popped in, plopped down next to me, and we talked about the NCAA men's basketball tournament and his high hopes for his alma mater, James Madison, to defeat Wisconsin. Turns out they did. Ryan also showed me a picture of his new inflatable fishing vessel and described the fun he recently had putting it in at Steamboat on the North Fork. He didn't catch any fish, but he had fun being on the water.
3. I didn't realize it when Debbie and I started listening to the podcast, Landslide, but all of its episodes have not been released yet. They are coming out, one at a time, on Thursdays.
Well, yesterday, the episode, "Ordinary Man" dropped and we listened to it tonight. The podcast shifted focus from the conflicts in the Republican Party in 1975-76 to a surprising development in the Democratic Party: the rise of a politically astute, obscure former governor from Georgia, Jimmy Carter.
Once again, listening to this episode took me back to Whitworth in the spring of 1976 and the theme dorm I wrote about earlier.
Our 20th Century History class tracked the daily/nightly news with great interest as Jimmy Carter won the Iowa caucus, after having campaigned in the state for many months leading up to it, something no candidate had ever thought to do before. Likewise, he had campaigned hard for months in New Hampshire and he won that primary.
Frank Church and Jerry Brown challenged Carter later in the primary season with some success.
Carter secured the Democratic Party's nomination to run for president, though, when George Wallace, who had run against Carter and lost to him in the Florida primary, released the delegates he'd won to Jimmy Carter.
Carter's bona fides as a conservative governor of Georgia swayed Wallace to support Jimmy Carter.
At the same time, Carter's support of civil rights earned his the support of Andrew Young and many African-American voters.
I am looking forward to how this podcast presents the 1976 election between Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford.
In 1976, Gerald Ford won every electoral vote in the West and the Rocky Mountain states. Yes. He won Washington, Oregon, California. He won Arizona, New Mexico, Colorado, and more.
Carter, on the other hand, won every state in the South, including Texas. He won Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, South Carolina -- but he lost Virginia to Gerald Ford. Carter also won New York, Massachusetts, and Pennsylvania, but Ford captured New Jersey and Connecticut.
How will the podcast Landslide explain these mind boggling results?
We'll tune in the next two Thursdays to find out!
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