More than any president in recent memory, and maybe ever, Jimmy Carter's legacy was defined by the good works he did after leaving the White House.
As president, though, he struggled with rising inflation, diplomatic setbacks and a growing sense that he was simply overmatched in the role — a feeling that led to a bitter but ultimately unsuccessful 1980 primary challenge from then-Massachusetts Sen. Ted Kennedy.
In this segment of Talking Politics, Adam Reilly is joined by Peter Ubertaccio, a political scientist and vice president of academic affairs at Stonehill College, and Paul Watanabe, a political scientist and director of the Institute for Asian American Studies at UMass Boston, to talk about that contest's many subplots and the implications it had for the Democratic Party moving forward, ranging from the types of candidates who seek and win the Democratic nomination to the support — or lack of overt opposition — that struggling incumbents now receive.
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