1976 election

Gerald Ford and Jimmy carter campaign against each other in the 1976 presidential election. Was followed after president Richard Nixon resigned after the Watergate scandal. President Gerald Ford, the Republican candidate, against the relatively unknown former governor of Georgia, Jimmy Carter, the Democratic candidate. Ford was saddled with a slow economy and paid a political price for his pardon of Nixon. Carter ran as a Washington outsider and won a narrow victory. He was the first president elected from the Deep South.