Though leading by wide margins according to polling after his securing his party’s nomination, Jimmy Carter’s edge over incumbent Gerald Ford evaporated, despite blunders and missteps and the unpopular pardoning of Nixon, to near even and the electoral vote was the closest since 1916, 
but once all the votes were tallied over night and into the next morning, it was revealed that the challenger, portraying himself as a reformer “untainted” by Washington as opposed to his opponent’s strategy of being an experienced insider, had prevailed and won the US presidency on this day in 1976. Though only taking twenty three states (plus DC) and garnering just under three hundred electors whilst winning the overall popular vote, Carter’s percentage was just above the threshold for victory—sweeping the South, Midwest, Texas (the last first and last times many of these precincts voted for a Democrat) and most of the Eastern Seaboard, Ford conceding at 03:30 in the morning and telephoning his congratulations to at 11:00.
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