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After acknowledging his victory in Atlanta, Carter and his family headed for Albany, Ga., aboard "Peanut One." He carried sleepy Daughter Amy into a car for their return to Plains. Even at dawn, some 400 townspeople awaited him. "I told you I didn't intend to lose," Carter said. Then, for the first time during the up-and-down campaign, his composure broke. He bit his lip, fought back tears, while most of his family wept. As the crowd cheered, then grew quiet, Carter conceded: "The only reason it was close was that I as a candidate was not good...
...Plains, Ga., a normally placid farming community of 683 citizens, there would never be another day like this one: Election Day, 1976-family reunion and carnival and the world's front page all rolled into one. TIME Correspondent Bonnie Angela was in Plains for the occasion and sent this report...
...things to all people, tailoring his positions to suit his audiences. There was mistrust, some ridicule of his strong religious note and his self- righteousness. Yet there was also obviously some appeal in the basic "trust me" approach adopted by the softspoken peanut farmer from Plains, Ga...
Soon, with a climactic barrage of TV and radio pitches, it would all be over. Each candidate would make his final, election-eve television appeal?Jimmy Carter from a relaxed setting in his study in small-town Plains, Ga.; Gerald Ford from a site to be selected at the last moment, depending on his hectic closing schedule. Then, relieved that the campaign had ended, millions of Americans would cast ballots. Other millions, unmoved by it all, would stay home?and perhaps decide the outcome...
...talked at length with TIME about their campaigns, in effect making a final plea to the voters. Aboard Air Force One, between campaign stops, the President chatted with Chief of Correspondents Murray Gart and Correspondents Dean Fischer and Strobe Talbott. While riding in a car from Plains to Albany, Ga., Carter spoke with Gart and Correspondent Stanley Cloud...