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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 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% ...
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 ...
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 United States presidential election in Texas was held on November 7, 1972, as part of the 1972 United States presidential election. Incumbent Republican President Richard Nixon overwhelmingly won the state of Texas with 66.20% of the vote, [ 2 ] to the Democratic Party candidate George McGovern 's 33.24%, thus giving him the state's 26 ...
Wallace, the opponent most feared by Nixon, was paralyzed by an attempted assassination in May, and McGovern won the nomination from powerful support in the Midwestern and Pacific states. Once McGovern won the nomination, he offered Florida Governor Reubin Askew the vice-presidential slot, but Askew turned the position down. [7]
Nixon also almost completely captured the twenty percent of Oklahoman voters who had supported Wallace in 1968: [7] exit polls suggested he won them over McGovern by a ratio of ten to one, and in the two Wallace counties of Pushmataha and Atoka Nixon totaled over seventy percent of the vote which increased from around thirty percent in 1968.