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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.
Elections were held on November 7, 1972, 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 of Congress.
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Nixon during an August 1972 campaign stop McGovern speaking at an October 1972 campaign rally. McGovern ran on a platform of immediately ending the Vietnam War and instituting a guaranteed minimum income for the nation's poor. His campaign was harmed by his views during the primaries, which alienated many powerful Democrats, the perception that ...
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.
The 1972 presidential campaign of Richard Nixon was a successful re-election campaign for President Richard Nixon and Vice President Spiro Agnew. They were reelected president and vice president after decisively defeating George McGovern and Sargent Shriver of the Democratic Party .
The report’s findings are based on data from the more than 4.5 million traffic stops California law enforcement agencies made in 2022. ... receiver for undefeated 1972 Dolphins and Heisman ...
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 ...