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Jimmy Carter ran a brilliant underdog campaign which is detailed in the seminal campaign book “Marathon[1]”. Carter was an unknown Southern governor who really showed the potential of the Iowa caucus to put a campaign on the map. Carter spent a great deal of time in the state, sleeping on couches of supporters and stunned everyone when he “won” (he actually came in second to uncommitted) which propelled him to victory in New Hampshire the following month.Carter’s victories in Iowa and New Hampshire and then in Florida two weeks later, propelled him to two months of consecutive primary victories in large states such as Illinois, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Texas, Georgia and Indiana.Jerry Brown and Frank Church came on strong in the end - winning 7 of the last 16 primaries, but it was too late to catch Carter.There were three key factors to Carter winning the Democratic nomination.Liberal heavyweights former Vice President Hubert Humphrey and Senator Ted Kennedy did not run.No single alternative to Carter emerged on the left, as Senators Birch Bayh (IN), Fred Harris (OK) and Frank Church (ID), Congressman Mo Udall (AZ), Governor Jerry Brown (CA) and former Vice Presidential nominee Sargent Shriver (MD) all split the vote.The more conservative Senator Scoop Jackson (WA) skipped Iowa and New Hampshire and was coming in just as Carter gained momentum.Carter faced President Ford who was hobbled by a tough primary fight with Ronald Reagan (Reagan won 10 of the last 19 primaries), pardoning Richard Nixon and rising inflation stemming from the lifting of Nixon-era price controls and the impact of the 1973–1974 OPEC Oil Embargo in retaliation for US support of Israel in the 1973 war.The folksy Carter, who was a peanut farmer and a Sunday school teacher, promised to unify a nation divided by Vietnam and pledged a honest government. He was neck and neck with Ford going into the debates - the first since the Kennedy-Nixon debates.Ford stumbled in the final debate by suggesting that Poland was not under Soviet domination and pundits seized on the gaffe. Some believe this may have stalled Ford’s momentum.Carter became the last Democrat to carry almost all of the Southern states and narrowly beat Ford 40.8M (50.1%) to 39.1M (48.0%).Footnotes[1] Marathon: The Pursuit of the Presidency 1972-1976: Jules Witcover: 9780670454617: Amazon.com: Books

Here is some information about Pranab Mukherjee who has sadly passed away today from health complications arising from brain clot surgery.Pranab MukherjeeHe had been awarded Bharat Ratna, India’s highest civilian honor in 2019Mukherjee’s father, Kamada Kinkar Mukherjee, was deeply involved in India’s struggle for independence from Britain in the first half of the 20th century. A longtime member of the INC, the elder Mukherjee spent several years in prison as a result of his activities opposing British rule and, after Indian independence, held a seat in the state legislature of West BengalMukherjee first ran for public office in 1969, when he won a seat in the Rajya Sabha (upper house) of the Indian parliament as a member of the Bangla Congress, which soon merged with the Congress Party.Due to his performance and fierce loyalty to the Gandhi family he was appointed as the Union Deputy Minister of Industrial Development in Indira Gandhi's cabinet in 1973.One of the black marks in his career was the accusations of gross misuse of his powers during the controversial period of Emergency.Due to his performances over the years, he had a meteoric rise in power as was appointed as the Deputy Leader of the INC in the Rajya Sabha, and in 1980 he was appointed Leader of the House. He was at the peak of his power.But after the assassination of Indira Gandhi, he lost the position in the cabinet, quite likely for being a threat to Rajiv Gandhi who lacked the political experience of the prowess of Pranab Mukherjee at that point of time.In 1986, Mukherjee founded another party, the Rashtriya Samajwadi Congress, in West Bengal. The RSC and INC merged three years later after reaching a compromise with Rajiv Gandhi.His political career revived after the assassination of Rajiv Gandhi when P.V Narasimha Rao chose to appoint him as deputy chairman of the Indian planning commission and subsequently as a union cabinet minister.Other than the leading duo of P.V Narasimha Rao & Manmohan Singh, Pranab Mukherjee also had a crucial role to play in the 1991 economic liberalisation of India. This was one of the biggest game changing moments for the Indian landscape.He has the rare distinction of having served the roles of Foreign, Defence, Commerce, and Finance Minister at different points of time.Not just these, but over the decades of serving the nation, he has served in so many positionsUnion Minister of Industrial Development 1973–1974Union Minister of Shipping and Transport 1974Minister of State for Finance 1974–1975Union Minister of Revenue and Banking 1975–1977Treasurer of Congress Party 1978–79Treasurer of All India Congress Committee 1978–79Leader of House of Rajya Sabha 1980–85Union Minister of Commerce and Steel and Mines 1980–1982Union Minister of Finance 1982–1984Board of Governors of IMF 1982–1985Board of Governors of World bank 1982–1985Board of Governors of Asian Development Bank 1982–1984Board of Governors of African Development Bank1982–1985Union Minister of Commerce and Supply 1984Chairman; Campaign Committee of Congress-I for conducting National Elections in Indian general elections in 1984, 1991, 1996, and 1998.Chairman of Group of 24(a Ministerial Group attached to IMF and World Bank)1984 and 2009–2012President of State Unit of Congress Party 1985 and 2000–08Chairman of Economic Advisory Cell of AICC 1987–1989Deputy Chairman of Planning Commission1991–1996Union Minister of Commerce 1993–1995Union Minister of Commerce 1995–1996President, SAARC Council of Ministers Conference 1995General Secretary of AICC 1998–1999Chairman of Central Election Coordination Committee 1999–2012Leader of House of Lok Sabha 2004–2012Union Minister of Commerce 2004–2006Union Minister of External Affairs 2006–2009Union Minister of Finance2009–2012President of India 25 July 2012 – 25 July 2017.After his long affiliation with Indian politics and INC Congress party, his departure was quite monumental and was aptly worded by the Economic Times as"[the] decades of activity in critical all-around roles make [Mukherjee's] exit both a structural and generation shift. With him, the last of the Congress triumvirate – along with Rao and R. Venkataraman – who formed the core team of Indira/Rajiv regimes bows out. While Rao became PM, Pranab's political marathon too ends where Venkataraman's did, at the Rashtrapati Bhavan."

Clearly, you’re talking about the recent E.U. safety rules designed to prevent people from accelerating to avoid accidents while large pipes are falling off the truck in front of them.In the U.S., these are known as “governors”, and the difference in the E.U. mandated technology seems to be that the top limit must be adjusted based on the local speed limits.I have to say that this is a solution in search of a problem.In the U.S., over the specific period from 1970–1979, highway deaths declined in 1970, and 1971, popped back up in 1972, declines in 1973, 1974, and 1975 again, and then for the next 4 years, heads up, until it goes down in 1980–1983.A national speed limit was enacted on November 26th, 1973, which means it had no impact in 1973 itself; it was 50 MPH for passenger cars, and 55MPH for trucks and busses.This was adjusted to 55MPH nationwide for all vehicles on January 2nd,What caused the roller coaster on the death toll on U.S. highways — was it the speed limits?No.It was the availability of oil.We were in the middle of the “Energy Crisis”, and what happened in 1973 was the OPEC oil embargo.Ironically, the national speed limit was raised to 65 MPH starting in 1989 — and highway death tolls decline 4.11%; the biggest single decline, other than each of the years in which seat belts, air bags, and other safety systems became mandatory.A speed governor is not a safety system.It’s a reason to panic when you are trying to avoid a dangerous situation.Trained drivers don’t stomp on the brakes; they lane-change to avoid accidents; lane changes are faster, and avoid sudden obstacles.Likewise, trained drivers know when to accelerate to avoid an accident, rather than maintaining the same speed, or trying to slow down.I can’t tell you how many times I’ve been “paces” by obviously bad drivers — some of them whose driving was obviously impaired from drug or alcohol use.You slow down — they slow down; you speed up to the speed limit — they speed up to the speed limit.The only way to avoid these Yahoos is to romp on the accelerator, and leave them behind, in their speed comfort bubble.If you want a real safety change?Double the price of gasoline in Europe., like happened in the U.S. in 1974; expect a similar 17.14% decline in automobile fatalities, because no one will be able to afford to drive their car, except to and from work or school.P.S.: I find it deliciously ironic that most of the English versions of stories about this rule-making are originating out of London. You know: given that the E.U. regulations will soon not apply to the U.K..