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At 90, Jimmy Carter is back campaigning in Georgia

FILE - IN this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, Gov. Nathan Deal, Georgia Republican candidate for governor, right, shakes hands with Democratic candidate Jason Carter, left, following a debate in Perry, Ga. Candidates everywhere this midterm election season are struggling for ways to frame the state of the economy, ranked by voters as the most important issue. The result is a blame game that cuts in multiple directions depending on the contest _ even, in one case, within the same state. Deal stood on stage while his Democratic challenger _ Carter’s grandson _ sharply blamed the governor for Georgia’s 8.1 percent unemployment rate, which in August was the nation’s highest. "You have watched this economy in Georgia leave the middle class behind," said Jason Carter, a state senator. (AP Photo/David Goldman) FILE - IN this Oct. 7, 2014, photo, Gov. Nathan Deal, Georgia Republican candidate for governor, right, shakes hands with Democratic candidate Jason Carter, left, following a debate in Perry, Ga. Candidates everywhere this midterm election season are struggling for ways to frame the state of the economy, ranked by voters as the most important issue. The result is a blame game that cuts in multiple directions depending on the contest _ even, in one case, within the same state. Deal stood on stage while his Democratic challenger _ Carter’s grandson _ sharply blamed the governor for Georgia’s 8.1 percent unemployment rate, which in August was the nation’s highest. "You have watched this economy in Georgia leave the middle class behind," said Jason Carter, a state senator. (AP Photo/David Goldman)

By Associated Press October 12, 2014 1 min read

ALBANY, Ga. (AP) – It’s been more than four decades since Jimmy Carter campaigned across Georgia and asked voters to make him governor.

His winning race set the stage for his election as president in 1976.

Carter’s just turned 90, but he was out campaigning on Sunday for his grandson Jason, a Democratic state senator and lawyer who’s challenging the Republican governor, Nathan Deal, on Nov. 4, in a close race.

Early voting begins Monday, and Jimmy Carter was at a church service in south Georgia praising his grandson for working in court against a state voter ID law.

Jimmy Carter also reminded the predominantly black congregation of the struggles that African-Americans faced in getting the right to vote.