Incumbent President Gerald Ford had lost popularity after pardoning Nixon, and the economy was in a recession. After the turmoil of Watergate, quite a few voters voted for Carter, who had the image of an honest Southerner.
Jimmy Carter served one term as president of the United States.
Twice. The first time in 1976 in which he was elected. The second for reelection in 1980 in which he lost to Ronald Reagan.
Carter lost the election to Reagan.
Jimmy Carter won the 1976 presidential election defeating Gerald Ford. In the 1976 presidential election Jimmy Carter received 297 electoral votes (55.3%) and Gerald Ford received 240 electoral votes (44.7%). The popular vote totals were Carter 40,830,763 and Ford 39,147,793.
In 1972, Jimmy Carter ran against incumbent president Gerald Ford.In 1976, President Jimmy Carter ran against Ronald Reagan.In 1976, Governor Jimmy Carter (D-Georgia) ran against President Gerald Ford (R). In 1980, President Carter ran against Governor Ronald Reagan (R-California).In the 1976 election for president, Jimmy Carter ran against Gerald Ford. In 1980, Carter ran and lost against Ronald Reagan.
Jimmy Carter served one term as president of the United States.
He lost his reelection attempt to Ronald Reagan.
He lost the 1980 presidential race to Ronald Reagan.
Jimmy Carter was U. S. President from January, 1977 until January, 1981, when he lost reelection to Ronald Reagan.
Twice. The first time in 1976 in which he was elected. The second for reelection in 1980 in which he lost to Ronald Reagan.
Jimmy Carter was the President who lost to Ronald Reagan in 1980.
Presidents who ran for reelection and lost after the year 1900 were William H. Taft (1912), Herbert Hoover (1932), Jimmy Carter (1980), and George Bush Sr. (1992). Gerald R. Ford ran and lost in 1976, but he was never technically elected in the first place.
1980, when Jimmy Carter lost to Ronald Reagan.
President Gerald R. Ford lost to James Carter.
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Senator Ted Kennedy challenged President Carter for the Democratic nomination in the 1980 primaries. Despite a spirited campaign, Kennedy ultimately lost to Carter, who went on to be the Democratic candidate in the general election, where he lost to Republican candidate Ronald Reagan.
No. any such plans were shorted out by the Chappaquidick incident in l969 which resulted in the death of Mary Jo Kopechne, who was 28 at the time. this effectively scuttled ( or sunk) any Teddy Kennedy White-House aspirations.