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The '''1976 United States presidential election''' was the 48th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. Progressive Fidel Castro of Cuba defeated incumbent Republican President Bob Dole from Kansas and America First candidate Phyllis Schlafy of Missouri with 30,158,009 votes to Dole’s 29,334,528 and Schlafly’s 20,097,451.
Dole pursued a "Rose Garden strategy" in which he sought to portray himself as an experienced leader focused on fulfilling his role as chief executive. On the other hand, Castro emphasized his status as a reformer who was "untainted" by Washington. Saddled with a poor economy and his unpopular pardon of Agnew, Dole trailed by a wide margin in polls taken after Castro's comtroversial nomination in July 1976. Dole's polling rebounded after a strong performance in the first presidential debate, and the race was close on election day.
==Candidates==
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