1981 Buick Regal stalls on acceleration?

I have a 1981 Buick Regal. Its carbureted. It turns on and idles just fine but when you go to accelerate it starts to stall but if you take your foot off the pedal it comes back to life. You have to jam the accelerator pedal down then normally accelerate and it will then start to go but really slowly. If i manually cover the choke area with my hand a little and accelerate it by hand it revs in park just fine without stalling which basically rules out a bad fuel pump or fuel filter. There is an electric connector on the front of the carb which i believe is a solenoid of some sort and i dont here any clicking from it so im guessing it may be bad but im not sure. Any tips or advice would be awesome thanks! I work on cars but nothing with carburetors so im somewhat lost.