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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 ...
- Come Home, America, McGovern. Democrat. For the People
- Democratic Party
- Announced: January 18, 1971, Official nominee: July 13, 1972, Lost election: November 7, 1972
U.S. presidential election of 1972, American presidential election held on November 7, 1972, in which Republican President Richard Nixon was elected to a second term, defeating Democratic candidate George McGovern in one of the largest landslides in U.S. history. Learn more about the election.
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McGovern's long-shot, grassroots-based 1972 presidential campaign found triumph in gaining the Democratic nomination but left the party split ideologically, and the failed vice-presidential pick of Thomas Eagleton undermined McGovern's credibility.
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Feb 15, 2022 · In 1972, Democratic Sen. George McGovern made a run for the presidency. Despite having little experience on Capitol Hill, McGovern secured the Democratic nomination. McGovern would go on to...
Nov 23, 2021 · Nov. 16, 2021. His focus is the 1972 campaign of the late South Dakota Sen. George McGovern. The story, told in seven episodes, begins in 1968 — one of the most tumultuous years in modern...
- mark.barabak@latimes.com
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Mar 25, 2024 · Democratic Party. George McGovern (born July 19, 1922, Avon, South Dakota, U.S.—died October 21, 2012, Sioux Falls, South Dakota) was an American politician who was an unsuccessful reformist Democratic candidate for the U.S. presidency in 1972. He campaigned on a platform advocating an immediate end to the Vietnam War and for a broad program ...
Nixon’s campaign focused early and often on the more radical-sounding views of McGovern, highlighting his support of amnesty for Americans who fled to Canada to avoid the Vietnam draft, his sometime musings that marijuana might better be decriminalized, and his support of legalized abortion (though with restrictions).
