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Separately I am going to write about how what Jimmy Carter and Joe Biden have in common, besides the obvious of being one-term terrible presidents, is that they were transitional figures in the Democratic Party when it was lurching to the left, but unable to make enough concessions to the left to save themselves from their own party’s hostility.

But for the moment, have a look at Carter’s 1976 electoral map, and note how different it is from the post-2000 electoral maps we have grown used to seeing. (Note also how close the 1976 election was. If Hawaii and Ohio, which were very close, had gone for Ford, and that one elector in Washington state didn’t defect to Reagan, Ford would have won.)

Chaser from The Simpson’s classic episode: