Question

What was a reason Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976?

Question 5 options:


all of these


increased public skepticism of government


was an outsider


Republican Party’s reputation damaged

Answer 1

Correct answer:

All of these

Jimmy Carter was elected president in 1976, following the years during which the Watergate scandal had ended Richard Nixon's presidency and deeply damaged the Republican Party's reputation. Carter, who had been Governor of Georgia from 1971 to 1975, was seen as someone different from Washington insiders. He also was a deeply moral man and active in his church as a Sunday School teacher. At the time, that gave him an air of trustworthiness that was welcomed by an electorate who had grown deeply skeptical of government during the Vietnam war era and the Nixon presidency.

Answer 2

Answer is all of these. Jimmy Carter was elected President in 1976 because of his religious values and free from political scandals which attracted the Republican voters. And because of the corruption and Nixon’s involvement in the Watergate scandal, the Conservatives had lost their faith in the Republican Party.