If it hadn't been for the Nixon people's dirty tricks against Ed Muskie, maybe Muskie would have been the nominee in 1972 instead of McGovern. The American people were so determined that they didn't want McGovern as President that they ignored the Watergate story...would the same have been true if a more plausible nominee had been put forward by the Democrats?
The Amurkin pipple hadn't gotten wise to the fundamental anti-americanism of the murkin media in 1972-4. They have now. In Izvestia is no Pravda and in Pravda is no Isvestia.