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I wondered the same thing. I well remember McGovern's ability to fire up his base support. He was good, but Bernie was better.
Comparisons between them are very hard to make fairly, though. McGovern became the opponent of a very popular President at a time when all the anarchy that was happening was coming from within the Democratic party.
McGovern's style was never as rousing or inspiring as Bernie's is, and George was unexpectedly saddled with a VP candidate, Tom Eagleton, who had once gotten shock therapy for depression. Back then, anyone who got electroshock therapy was presumed to be violently crazy.
2016 was a very different election in a very different time. McGovern would not be seen today as being all that far left at all, just as Nixon is no longer seen as being far right.
If the 1972 election had been a a toss-up with no incumbent, I've always thought it was possible that McGovern could have won, even after Eagleton was forced to bail out. Sargent Shriver was a pretty darn good replacement, but Eagleton crippled McGovern's chances in what was already an uphill fight.
it's easy to forget just how popular Richard Nixon was in 1972. The election soon followed Nixon's triumphal trip to China just a few months earlier, and the entire nation (and the entire world) thought the U.S. detente with China was the best thing that had happened in many years. Nixon followed China up with a Russian arms agreement, and coasted all the way to a second term afterward.
Nixon was so sure he would be re-elected he didn't even bother to campaign in 1972. He spent the summer in the White House or in his San Clemente home hanging out with his best buddy Bebe Rebozo.
That's part of the reason why the Watergate break-in was so puzzling and so hard to believe for so many Americans later on.
True, the comparison is probably full of holes. Excellent points.
But I still have to wonder, if Hillary Clinton, who was center-left at best, and maybe even center-right, but lost to Trump, how are we going to beat Trump in 2020 by moving far to the left? I would allow that Bernie is a superior campaigner to Hillary.
True, the comparison is probably full of holes. Excellent points.
But I still have to wonder, if Hillary Clinton, who was center-left at best, and maybe even center-right, but lost to Trump, how are we going to beat Trump in 2020 by moving far to the left? I would allow that Bernie is a superior campaigner to Hillary.
It didn't matter how you labeled Hillary. She didn't lose over that. She lost because she was widely disliked regardless. One side disliked her for promoting open restrooms and the other side disliked her war mongering and selling out to Wall Street.
It didn't matter how you labeled Hillary. She didn't lose over that. She lost because she was widely disliked regardless. One side disliked her for promoting open restrooms and the other side disliked her war mongering and selling out to Wall Street.
But that same side likes Joe Biden who voted to repeal glass steagall, also voted for the Iraq war and Beto, who voted to weaken Dodd Frank and supports TPP, Fracking and takes donations from AIPAC?
But that same side likes Joe Biden who voted to repeal glass steagall, also voted for the Iraq war and Beto, who voted to weaken Dodd Frank and supports TPP, Fracking and takes donations from AIPAC?
What you mean to say is that Biden voted for the final resolution after Republicans compromised and put in consumer protections. The bill had already passed 54-44.
But that same side likes Joe Biden who voted to repeal glass steagall, also voted for the Iraq war and Beto, who voted to weaken Dodd Frank and supports TPP, Fracking and takes donations from AIPAC?
We will see. (BTW, Dodd/Frank needs gone) If Biden runs and runs on carrying out the war, it will get ugly.
What you mean to say is that Biden voted for the final resolution after Republicans compromised and put in consumer protections. The bill had already passed 54-44.
There was no excuse for voting for it. Obviously the "protections" were window dressing.
It didn't matter how you labeled Hillary. She didn't lose over that. She lost because she was widely disliked regardless. One side disliked her for promoting open restrooms and the other side disliked her war mongering and selling out to Wall Street.
She lost because of this bizarre thing called the Electoral College.
She lost because of this bizarre thing called the Electoral College.
Hillary loss because she was a bad politicians. Why can’t you see that?
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