I usually associate Jimmy Carter with the historic Egypt-Israel peace treaty that Carter famously brokered in 1979. But leave it to Jon Keller to recall something many in deep-blue Massachusetts would prefer to forget: how Jimmy ‘I’ll Whup His Ass’ Carter whupped Ted Kennedy in the Democratic presidential primaries in 1980. … And he really did whup Kennedy, who totally underestimated Carter and overestimated his own appeal. … In other local coverage of the death of Jimmy Carter, from the Globe’s James Pindell: “How Jimmy Carter remade a New England institution and altered American politics in the process.” … And from NBC Boston: “Jimmy Carter’s unique connection to Mass., and how he sparked the craft beer industry.”