In those days, despite the much publicized in-your-face radicalism of the college campuses, many of us, probably the majority of us, most certainly were not. As proof of this, I would point to George McGovern who would have not have lost to Richard Nixon so handsomely. After all, we baby boomers were a very large demographic!
It is sad that Garrison K. is not now what he once was; in those days he deserved his success.