But Carter, a former Georgia governor who ... was crushed by GOP nominee Ronald Reagan in the general election, with the former California governor sweeping 44 of the 50 states.

Among blue-collar Kennedy supporters, nearly half backed Reagan over Carter in the general election. Reagan’s base of support was among the well-to-do, but his gains over Ford’s 1976 showing ...

Deceased President Jimmy Carter feuded with multiple presidents after he left office, including former President Bill Clinton. Carter, who served as the 39th president of the United States and ...

Reagan didn’t change the pendulum’s direction ... and the first to rely on evangelicals to win the presidency. Carter’s election coincided with the politicization of evangelical Christianity ...

Ronald Reagan defeated Carter in the 1980 election, a year after Islamic radicals in Iran seized American hostages at the U.S. Embassy in Tehran. Some historians said time has proven the worth of ...

The crisis would not end until Reagan took the oath of office on Jan. 20, 1981. A year ahead of the 1980 election, Carter was already in deep trouble. In the summer of 1979, he had retreated to ...

Former Carter aides have speculated that they might have won if they had returned the hostages before the election. The 52 Americans were released on the day Reagan took office. Former President ...

Jimmy Carter withstood a challenge from Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination but was politically diminished heading into his general election battle ...