Crist stands by prediction Obama could face massive defeat
(CNN) — Florida Gov. Charlie Crist is standing by his recent prediction that President Obama may be headed for a massive electoral defeat similar to that which President Carter faced in 1980.
[It] may happen again,” Crist told CNN’s John Roberts on American Morning Tuesday. “What I think has occurred is that in 1976 the people wanted a change…I think the same thing sort of happened last year in America.”
“What change we got may not necessarily be the change that America wants,” Crist continued. “What I mean by that is that every day you get up and the government has taken over some other industry, auto industry or banks or whatever it might be. I think that the change that’s coming about is a little too fast, little too furious.”
Plagued by a sputtering economy, an energy crisis, and the Iran hostage ciris, Carter won just six states in 1980 — the fewest by a major-party presidential candidate since 1964.
Crist, who is vying for his state’s GOP Senate nomination, recently vowed to a gathering of national conservatives that their party is poised for a rebound in the wake of two straight disappointing election cycles.
“America is awake and we’re coming back,” he said Friday at the biennial Mackinac Republican Leadership Conference on Mackinac Island, Michigan.
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