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Jimmy Carter Gives Obama Advice on How to Win Reelection: Don't Alienate Voters in First Term
January 03, 2012
He then admitted that just about everything he did alienated voters.
ATLANTA (The Blaze/AP) -- Former President Jimmy Carter has some advice for Barack Obama as he gears up for the 2012 election: Don't alienate voters with controversial positions.
The Georgia Democrat told The Associated Press on Tuesday that just about everything he did alienated voters, from sealing a treaty to hand over the Panama Canal to establishing diplomatic ties with China.
Carter said: "If your main goal is to get re-elected, avoid a controversial subject as much as you can in the first term."
Carter also faced Democratic opposition from Sen. Ted Kennedy during his 1980 re-election bid, which he said was a big handicap that Obama won't have.
The remarks came as Iowa residents cast the first votes of the 2012 presidential race to help determine Obama's Republican opponent.
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