IN AMERICA'S CLOSE PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION challenger Jimmy Carter bested incumbent Gerald Ford with 50.5% of the popular vote. At one point in the campaign Carter had held more than a thirty-point lead over Ford. Pollster George Gallup stated that the President was in the midst of a dramatic comeback until he stumbled over key foreign-policy issues supposedly his forte - in the second of three nationally televised debates between the two candidates.
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