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How Ed Muskie’s Disastrous Presidential Campaign Changed Maine Politics Forever. Wiping away what may or may not have been tears, the Maine senator and brief presidential front-runner dooms his primary chances — while shaping a generation of Maine leaders.
Muskie ran with Vice President Hubert Humphrey against Nixon in the 1968 presidential election, losing the popular vote by 0.7 percentage point—one of the narrowest margins in U.S. history. He would go on to run in the 1972 presidential election , where he secured 1.84 million votes in the primaries , coming in fourth out of 15 contesters.
Feb 9, 2020 · Published by the arch-conservative Manchester Union Leader less than two weeks before the New Hampshire primary, the letter alleged that Sen. Edmund S. Muskie (D-Maine), then the front-runner...
Dec 5, 2018 · As the Democratic National Convention ended on Aug. 29, 1968, and the presidential campaign kicked off, many believed that the Democratic ticket — Hubert Humphrey running for president and U.S. Sen. Edmund Muskie ’36 of Maine for vice president — was dead on arrival.
Mar 18, 2015 · Slate’s new podcast about campaign history revisits the 1972 election, when Sen. Edmund Muskie washed away his presidential ambitions with tears of anger.
May 21, 2018 · United States Senator Edmund Sixtus Muskie (1914-1996), the 1968 Democratic vice-presidential nominee and briefly a presidential candidate in 1972, was one of the key congressional leaders in formulating national policy on urban affairs and the environment during the 1960s and 1970s.
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Feb 1, 1987 · Ed Muskie was the front-runner in the 1972 New Hampshire presidential primary, so when his press aides alerted reporters staying at the Sheraton Wayfarer in nearby Bedford that Muskie would go to...
