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Vor 2 Tagen · The 1972 United States presidential election was the 47th quadrennial presidential election held on Tuesday, November 7, 1972. Incumbent Republican president Richard Nixon defeated Democratic U.S. senator George McGovern in a landslide victory. With 60.7% of the popular vote, Richard Nixon won the largest share of the popular vote for the ...
- California
- Republican
- Richard Nixon
- Spiro Agnew
Vor 2 Tagen · Instead, these delegates rallied around the late-starting candidacy of Senator George McGovern of South Dakota, a Kennedy supporter in the spring primaries who had presidential ambitions himself. This division of the anti-war votes at the Democratic Convention made it easier for Humphrey to gather the delegates he needed to win the ...
- New York [a]
- Republican
- Richard Nixon
- Spiro Agnew
Vor 2 Tagen · Since the death of George McGovern in 2012, this is the earliest election where at least one of the major party nominees for president (Carter) or vice president is still alive. Ford died in 2006 and both Mondale and Dole died in 2021.
Vor 5 Tagen · South Dakota Sen. George McGovern, who is buried in Washington’s Rock Creek Cemetery, was eligible for burial nine miles away in Arlington.
Vor 2 Tagen · In 1972 the party nominated antiwar candidate George S. McGovern, who lost to Nixon in one of the biggest landslides in U.S. electoral history. Two years later the Watergate scandal forced Nixon’s resignation, enabling Jimmy Carter , then the Democratic governor of Georgia , to defeat Gerald R. Ford , Nixon’s successor, in 1976 .
Vor 4 Tagen · In 1972, George McGovern thought the 26th Amendment would be his ticket to the White House. It didn't go as planned.That year, with the franchise...
That seems to have made several races closer around that time, and probably helped McGovern's career. Once he was in office he also had incumbency advantage, which will have broadened his appeal even to conservative leaning voters. Before 1972 he also wasn't seen as quite as radical as Nixon's campaign portrayed him as, and that ...
