-—the widest popular vote margin in any presidential election.-—
” winning 60.7 percent of the popular vote and 520 electoral votes, to McGovern’s 37.5 percent and 17, respectively.
In becoming the first Republican ever to sweep the South, Nixon received nearly 18 million more votes than McGovern. He still holds the record as having achieved the widest popular vote margin in any presidential election.”
You mean by absolute numbers. I’m always more interested in %. It’s not shocking when someone beats another earlier person in population count.