When President Jimmy Carter’s reelection campaign advisers were planning a key West Coast swing through Washington, Oregon and California in mid-September 1980, they decided to hold the campaign’s ...

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

GEORGIA (WALB) - On December 4, two major Georgia historical events occurred. The first was in 1979 when Jimmy Carter announced his reelection campaign for president. Carter lost in a landslide in ...

PLAINS, Ga. (WALB) - On December 12, 1974, Jimmy Carter announced his candidacy for president. Carter’s political career began in the 1960s when he was elected into the Georgia State Senate, ...

Jimmy Carter knows why Barack Obama was re-elected. According to the former one-term president, it wasn't Obama's first-term achievements or his limber campaign staff that secured his second victory.

ATLANTA — Jason Carter, the grandson of former President Jimmy Carter and a state lawmaker from Atlanta, said Thursday that he plans to run for governor of Georgia next year, energizing Democrats ...