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.

Carter’s big break came in Florida on March 9, 1976, when he soundly defeated segregationist Alabama Gov. George Wallace in a ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Richard Nixon made Carter tempting; Carter made Ronald Reagan necessary ... and moral interventionist” who behaved “as if the election of 1980 had been only some kind of ghastly mistake ...