In 1976, the incumbent Republican President, Gerald Ford, faced off against the Democratic challenger, Jimmy Carter. Carter, a former governor of Georgia, campaigned on a platform of government ...

A series of recent historical studies have sought to sanitize the many failures of Carter's presidential term by arguing that ...

Even Republicans, who have used President Carter to attack Democrats for nearly 50 years, have had to reckon with revisionism.

President Jimmy Carter didn't just use NASCAR as a campaign stop. He was a fan. And the last national Democrat to be truly ...

At first, Jimmy Carter was a political wizard. But he couldn’t keep the magic act going.

Everybody knows that Jimmy Carter was America’s last truly ... to privacy”) positioned Carter well to the left of Republican and Democratic successors alike. Historical memory of Carter ...

“Jimmy Carter didn’t fit in with a lot of ... The embedded hostilities of Democrat-versus-Republican can melt in the presidents club as former rivals become unlikely mates.

Devoutness wasn't always an important feature in a presidential candidate. That all changed after Carter professed his “born ...

They became one of the most loyal Republican voting blocs ... and Walter Mondale might be “another Jimmy Carter.” Around the region, the Democratic brand can sometimes be so toxic that the ...

In the wake of Jimmy ... ended Carter’s tenure as 39th president, the politically historic “Reagan Revolution” seemingly ended the warm relationship between NASCAR and Carter’s Democratic ...