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 | irishgit (138)
02/06/2007 | Probably the worst candidate of the Democratic primaries that year. (Note that I say "candidate" not man or politician. McGovern was one of the more adept and clever members of the senate, but he was ill-suited for Presidential campaigning)
An excrutiatingly bad campaign, particularly marred by the flip-flop on Eagleton, he would have lost handily even if CREEP hadn't tried to tilt the playing field.
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 | oscargamblesfro (76)
12/14/2005 | I was approximately 2 at this time. I'm not shocked that Nixon won, and would've definitely voted for McGovern over Tricky Dick (I am ,after all, a Massachusetts left leaning sort more than not, lol.) but without getting into anything political about it, what shocks me is the magnitude of the ass kicking: 49 states to 1. Incredible.
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 | GenghisTheHun (168)
12/14/2005 | No shock at all. He had loser written all over him. He was surrounded by and supported by a mob of people who scared about 2/3 of ordinary Americans. His bumbling of the Vice Presidential thing was symptomatic.
McGovern was so morally myopic that he actually thought that his pledge to redistribute income was a winner. When a batch of Democratic steelworkers in Pittsburgh protested, McGovern joked that "they must think they are going to win the lottery." He couldn't take off his Marxist helmet long enough to realize that these blue collar workers thought that stealing money from one person to give to another was immoral.
What a joke ticket.
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 | Drummond (54)
12/13/2005 | He was way ahead of his time. The country wasn't ready.
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 | EschewObfuscation (61)
01/04/2005 | Hey, I was shocked. The voting age had just been lowered to 18, as if it was lowered for me. Certainly with so many new, young voters, Nixon could be defeated. I was certain that McGovern would win, that he cared about the little guy, that Nixon was evil, that he lied and stole everything in sight, that his entire administration had prolonged the Vietnam War for political gain and that all Nixon cared about were his rich, republican friends. Sargent Shriver was sort of a Kennedy, right? Who was Tom Eagleton, again? I never thought of myself as a liberal, I was a Kennedy democrat.
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 | abichara (60)
09/06/2004 | One of the biggest Presidential losers of the 20th Century, George McGovern simply couldn't catch a break throughout his campaign. The Republicans painted him as a socialist for his stances on income supplements and general associations with left-wing groups. He ran an amateurship campaign that never had any traction from the get-go. Nixon probably would have won regardless of who would have ran in 1972, the economy was slightly rebounding and he was perceived as a competent chief executive, especially with regards to foreign policy; although a stronger Democratic candidate would have certainly given him a much closer run than McGovern did.
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 | jgls (12)
09/05/2004 | he couldn't pick a decent running mate or run his own convention. he would have been a disaster as president and the american people knew it, he knew it, and the citizens of south dakota knew it because he even lost his own state. i could have done better against nixon, and i was only 9 at the time.
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