When Ronald Reagan walloped Jimmy Carter in the 1980 presidential election, political experts “discovered” those voters for the first time: traditionally Democratic, working-class whites in ...

ATLANTA — Georgia's Democratic Party is on the verge of a major shift. On Saturday, the state's Democratic Party committee voted to begin the process of transforming the party chair position ...

But Carter, a former Georgia governor who ... Kennedy of Massachusetts for the 1980 Democratic presidential nomination, was crushed by GOP nominee Ronald Reagan in the general election, with ...