The titanic political contest in 1980 between Jimmy Carter and Ronald Reagan is well known. It was a struggle between two very different men with two very different views of America and the world.

When President Jimmy Carter ran for reelection in 1980, he had to compete against former California Gov. Ronald Reagan. It was no contest. Reagan took 44 of the 50 states and won the popular vote ...

US President Jimmy Carter and his wife Rosalynn greet Ronald Reagan and wife Nancy at the 40th president’s inauguration. (AFP/Getty) ...

Jimmy Carter beat Ronald Reagan in 1980. In a series of nine stories in 1980 on "Crucial States" -- battleground states as they are known today ...

Then-President Jimmy Carter and then-candidate Ronald Reagan debate in Cleveland, October 1980. Jimmy Carter, the incumbent Democratic president of the United States, was there. Ronald Reagan, the ...

Jimmy Carter’s melancholy fate was to be a largely derivative figure: He was a reaction against his elected predecessor and the precursor of his successor. Richard Nixon made Carter tempting; ...

This is what happened in the 1980 election. A former governor of California, Republican Ronald Reagan, brought the conservative movement into the halls of power by defeating incumbent Jimmy Carter.

President Jimmy Carter, left, lost the 1980 presidential election to Ronald Reagan after a period of high inflation and amid a foreign policy crisis. (Arnie Sachs/CNP/Getty Images | Jerome Delay ...

Michael Reagan argues that issues from Jimmy Carter's presidency, ... Ronald Reagan did a pretty good job when it came to defeating the Soviet Empire and ending the Cold War.

I think I ultimately did vote for Jimmy Carter in 1976. And, yeah, he was a pretty decent guy after he got out of electoral politics and became a carpenter. However, his work for the Empire was ...

Jimmy Carter’s melancholy fate was to be a largely derivative figure: He was a reaction against his elected predecessor and the precursor of his successor. Richard M. Nixon made Carter ...