United States Presidential Election, 1976 (The FDR Amendment)

The United States Presidential Election of 1976 was the 48th quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 2, 1976. It was a contest between the relatively little known Georgian governor, Jimmy Carter and former U.S. Representative from Michigan's 5th congressional district, Gearld Ford with the latter winning the election.

Then incumbent president Robert F. Kennedy chose not to seek a third term reasoning that he'd done everything he could in his two terms as presiden and he had nothing left to do. With this unexpected announcement the Democratic Party panicked and had to quickly choose another candidate who happened to be Jimmy Carter. Carter having to be the candidate after Kennedy soon faced serious opposition from within his own party with Ted, brother of president Robert Kennedy, nearly defeated Carter in the primaries.