[ColdSteelTalon]

probably because of his antisemitic statements in 1980.

Jimmy Carter made anti-semitic statements in 1980? I did not know that.

[Susannah]

see post #42 in the following thread about Jewish votes


http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1118856/posts

[SJackson]

Jimmy Carter, on Israel and the Jews

1979: "I have never met an Arab leader that in private professed a desire for an independent Palestinian state. Publicly, they all espouse an independent Palestinian state -- almost all of them -- because that is what they committed themselves to do at Rabat (the 1974 Arab League summit conference)."
--President Jimmy Carter
a 1979 press conference

Early 1980: …at a March 1980 meeting with his senior political advisers, angrily snapped, "If I get back in, I`m going to f--- the Jews."
Jimmy Carter, March 1980

Late 1980: Cyrus Vance…confirmed to then-New York mayor Ed Koch that Carter, if reelected, would "sell out" the Jews
Jimmy Carter shortly before the 1980 election

2003: …had I been elected to a second term, with the prestige and authority and influence and reputation I had in the region, we could have moved to a final solution
Jimmy Carter, 12-1-2003

[Revenge of Sith]

Carter did lose a lot of Jewish votes in both the Democratic primaries and the general election in 1980 because he supported a UN resolution criticizing Israeli settlements that year. However, I don't think he made any anti-Semitic statements.