I wasn’t alive back then. What was the election like? Did most people tune out after McGovern got the nomination, other than when Eagleton got kicked off?
Of course if only celebrities voted, McGovern would have won in a landslide.
its weird..you can watch McGoverns acceptance speech from the 1972 dem convention on you tube..you would swear its 2020...the media and the far left were just giddy that they had taken over and defeated the moderates of their party. John Kenneth Galbreath and that crowd were literally dancing in a circle with glee and danced themselves right into a 49 state loss. They hated Nixons guts..blamed everything on him..the war ..Kent State...racism, the usual. They kept protesting the war, even though all combat forces had been removed for over a year..Nixon was wrapping it up and they hated that he had kept his promise...made them gag to say it, as he said at a press conference...McGovern wanted to give every person a 2000 dollar “peace payment”. He kept demanding that Nixon debate him...Nixon just ignored him and crushed his dumb ass in November of that year...
McGovern’s campaign was inept and the Democratic party was badly split, with many conservative Democrats openly dismissive of McGovern. The Nixon campaign had a tightly controlled, take no chances air about it and sought to maximize Nixon’s margin of victory even at the expense of other GOP candidates on the ballot. The result was that Nixon’s victory was without coat-tails and did not bring in many other Republican victories. And there was that nagging problem of a mysterious break-in at the Watergate building.