SACRAMENTO — Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but ...

Historian calls Jimmy Carter a 'candidate for Mt. Rushmore' 1mo Many people are remembering former President Jimmy Carter, who died at the age of 100, after more than a year in hospice care.

Political cartoonists had a field day drawing Jimmy Carter. The image of Carter during his 1976 campaign included caricatures of a rural Southerner and that giant smile.

Into this milieu, candidate Jimmy Carter announced that he was a "born-again Christian" (a concept that many American moderns were learning of, no doubt, for the first time).

In the past, candidates could get by capturing a few big winner-take-all states, but Carter’s strategy focused on passing that 15 percent threshold in a large number of states and amassing ...

Jimmy Carter's 1976 Iowa Caucus win established the state as a proving ground for presidential hopefuls. Carter's team leveraged grassroots organizing and capitalized on media attention ...

Back in 1976, Carter changed the way presidential candidates are nominated and elected. He went on to provide models of what to do – and what not to do.

Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency. He was a natural populist, but he appealed to ...

Jimmy Carter was the right presidential candidate for his time in 1976 — a smiling, homespun, anti-Washington outsider promising truth and decency.