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[[Αρχείο:Carter and Ford in a debate, September 23, 1976.jpg|right|thumb|Ο Κάρτερ και ο Πρόεδρος [[Τζέραλντ Φορντ]] συζητούν στο [[Walnut Street Theater]] στην [[Φιλαδέλφεια (Πεννσυλβάνια)|Φιλαδέλφεια]].]]
Ο Κάρτερ έγινε το φαβορί νωρίς με την νίκη του στους προοκριματικούς της [[Αϊόβα]] και του [[προκριματικοί του Νιου Χάμσαϊρ]]. Χρησιμοποίησε μια στρατηγική δύο σκελών: Στον Νότο, which most had tacitly conceded to Alabama's George Wallace, Carter ran as a moderate favorite son. When Wallace proved to be a spent force, Carter swept the region. In the North, Carter appealed largely to conservative Christian and rural voters and had little chance of winning a majority in most states. He won several Northern states by building the largest single bloc. Carter's strategy involved reaching a region before another candidate could extend influence there. He traveled over 50,000 miles, visited 37 states, and delivered over 200 speeches before any other candidates even announced that they were in the race.<ref>[http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/carter/player/#v276 PBS Amex Jimmy Who?].</ref> Initially dismissed as a regional candidate, Carter proved to be the only Democrat with a truly national strategy, and he eventually clinched the nomination.
The national news media discovered and promoted Carter, as Lawrence Shoup noted in his 1980 book ''The Carter Presidency and Beyond'':
{{quote|''What Carter had that his opponents did not was the acceptance and support of elite sectors of the mass communications media. It was their favorable coverage of Carter and his campaign that gave him an edge, propelling him rocket-like to the top of the opinion polls. This helped Carter win key primary election victories, enabling him to rise from an obscure public figure to President-elect in the short space of 9 months.''}}
Carter was interviewed by [[Robert Scheer]] of ''[[Playboy]]'' for its November 1976 issue, which hit the newsstands a couple of weeks before the election. It was here that in the course of a digression on his religion's view of pride, Carter admitted: "I've looked on a lot of women with lust. I've committed adultery in my heart many times."<ref>"The Playboy Interview: Jimmy Carter." Robert Scheer. ''Playboy'', November 1976, Vol. 23, Iss. 11, pp. 63–86.</ref> He remains the only American president to be interviewed by this magazine.
As late as January 26, 1976, Carter was the first choice of only four percent of Democratic voters, according to a [[Gallup poll]]. Yet "by mid-March 1976 Carter was not only far ahead of the active contenders for the Democratic presidential nomination, he also led President [[Gerald Ford|Ford]] by a few percentage points", according to Shoup.
He chose Senator [[Walter Mondale|Walter F. Mondale]] as his running mate. He attacked Washington in his speeches, and offered a religious salve for the nation's wounds.<ref name = "Dyer-2004">American Presidency, Brinkley and Dyer, 2004.</ref>
Carter began the race with a sizable lead over Ford, who was able to narrow the gap over the course of the campaign, but was unable to prevent Carter from narrowly defeating him on November 2, 1976. Carter won the popular vote by 50.1 percent to 48.0 percent for Ford and received 297 [[electoral college|electoral votes]] to Ford's 240. The electoral vote was so close that if Ford had carried Texas and Arkansas (instead of Carter), Ford would have won the election. Carter became the first contender from the [[Deep South]] to be elected President since the [[US presidential election, 1848|1848 election]]. Carter carried fewer states than Ford—23 states to the defeated Ford's 27—yet Carter won with the largest percentage of the popular vote (50.1 percent) of any non-incumbent since [[Dwight Eisenhower]], and only half a percent less than what Ronald Reagan would defeat him with in 1980.
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