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Nixon took 55.00% of the vote to McGovern's 41.54%, a margin of 13.46%. Nixon had previously won California against John F. Kennedy in 1960 and then against Hubert Humphrey in 1968. This was the first presidential election in which California had the most electoral college votes as a result of the 1970 census, a status it has maintained ever since.
Richard Nixon during an August 1972 campaign stop George McGovern speaking at an October 1972 campaign rally. McGovern ran on a platform of immediately ending the Vietnam War and instituting a radical guaranteed minimum income for the nation's poor. His campaign was harmed by his views during the primaries (which alienated many powerful ...
1.2 Richard Nixon vs George McGovern (Post ... 2.10 Richard Nixon vs Edmund Muskie vs. George Wallace vs ... Feb. 28 – Mar. 7, 1972 53%: 28% 13% — 6% 25: 59%: 32% ...
The 1972 United States elections were held on November 7, and elected the members of the 93rd United States Congress. The election took place during the later stages of the Vietnam War . The Republican Party won a landslide victory in the presidential election, and picked up seats in the House, but the Democratic Party easily retained control ...
Richard Nixon for President 1972; Nixon–Agnew campaign logo. Campaign: 1972 Republican primaries 1972 U.S. presidential election: Candidate: Richard Nixon 37th President of the United States (1969–1974) Spiro Agnew 39th Vice President of the United States (1969–1973) Affiliation: Republican Party: Status: Announced: January 7, 1972 ...
McGovern campaign button. The George McGovern 1972 presidential campaign began when United States Senator George McGovern from South Dakota launched his second candidacy for the Presidency of the United States in an ultimately unsuccessful bid to win the 1972 presidential election against incumbent president Richard Nixon, winning only in the District of Columbia and the state of Massachusetts.
McGovern also carried the state by a surprisingly comfortable nine-point margin, making the state 32% more Democratic than the national average in the 1972 election. McGovern, a staunch liberal Democrat best known for his strong principled opposition to the Vietnam War, was painted by the Nixon campaign as an extremist too far to the left of ...
Nevada held no Democratic primary in 1972, and once South Dakota Senator George McGovern secured the nomination, every poll suggested that incumbent President Nixon would win the state very easily, [3] typically by around a two-to-one margin. [4] Nixon carried Nevada with 63.68% of the vote to McGovern's 36.32%, a victory margin of 27.36%.