More: The death of the Iowa Democratic caucus: How 50 years of jury-rigging doomed an American tradition Jimmy Carter and the Iowa Caucuses needed each other. While Carter’s team sketched out ...

Iowa had given an unknown entity enough momentum to take on party favorites once before. That could be Carter, too, couldn’t it? During the 1976 election cycle, former President Jimmy Carter ...

Former President Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, died on Dec. 29, 2024. The 39th president of the United States had connections that ran deep in Iowa.

Iowa leaders praised former President Jimmy Carter as a dedicated public servant and global humanitarian who used the Iowa caucuses in 1976 to propel the little-known peanut farmer turned Georgia ...

Jimmy Carter campaigns at the Iowa State Fair ahead of the 1976. Iowa had given an unknown entity enough momentum to take on party favorites once before. That could be Carter, too, couldn’t it?

On this week's episode of Close Up, we look at Jimmy Carter's impact across the globe — and here in Iowa. Carter, the longest-lived American president died on Sunday, Dec. 29, roughly 22 months ...

Jimmy Carter's 1976 Iowa Caucus win established the state as a proving ground for presidential hopefuls. Carter's team leveraged grassroots organizing and capitalized on media attention ...

Jimmy Carter speaks at a campaign event Jan. 8, 1976 — 11 days before the Iowa caucuses that year — at the Jim Albright home in northwest Cedar Rapids.

Jimmy Carter's 1976 Iowa Caucus win established the state as a proving ground for presidential hopefuls. Carter's team leveraged grassroots organizing and capitalized on media attention ...

DES MOINES, Iowa — In 1975, political consultant Tim Kraft’s job was to turn “Jimmy who?” into Jimmy Carter, the bona fide ...

Jimmy Carter's 1976 Iowa Caucus win established the state as a proving ground for presidential hopefuls. Carter's team leveraged grassroots organizing and capitalized on media attention ...