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The Republican ticket of President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew won a landslide victory in the 1972 presidential election.
The contest for the Republican Party's presidential nomination in 1976 was between two serious candidates: incumbent president Gerald Ford, a member of the party's moderate wing, and former governor of California Ronald Reagan, a member of the party's conservative wing.
In order to win the election on November 2 1976, Ford needed to secure the majority of votes in five of the eight largest states. Within 10 days of the end of his campaign, he led in only three of them.
Carter won the Democratic nomination on the first ballot. He chose the more liberal Senator Walter F. Mondale of Minnesota as his running mate, hoping to balance the ticket ideologically and geographically. Ford left the Republican convention trailing Carter by thirty-four points in the polls.
The unusual chain of events that lifted Ford to the Oval Office began in 1972 when operatives connected to President Richard Nixon’s (1913-1994) re-election campaign broke into the Democratic...
5 days ago · November 2, 1976. Participants: Jimmy Carter. Bob Dole. Gerald Ford. Eugene McCarthy. Walter Mondale. Gus Hall. United States presidential election of 1976, American presidential election held on November 2, 1976, in which Democrat Jimmy Carter defeated Republican Pres. Gerald R. Ford. At a glance: the election of 1976.
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The general election campaign. The harmony that prevailed at the Democratic convention had its effect on popular opinion. By the time the convention adjourned, Carter had a massive lead of more than 30 percentage points over Ford in the Gallup and Harris polls.
