Nixon beat McGovern by, I think, an all time record margin for a Republican win in terms of popular vote percentage.
Various factors cited by Wikipedia for McGovern's huge defeat, but one of them is that he was perceived as "extreme left wing". What positions did he espouse to earn that label? Not very much, I'd guess, given the hugely anti-Socialist views of almost the entire US electorate in those days?
Various factors cited by Wikipedia for McGovern's huge defeat, but one of them is that he was perceived as "extreme left wing". What positions did he espouse to earn that label? Not very much, I'd guess, given the hugely anti-Socialist views of almost the entire US electorate in those days?
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