Why did McGovern lose so badly?

[FEMA Camp Administrator]

Nixon's unbelievably underhand campaign also deserves a mention, but that goes without saying. The Federal Reserve also started to behave in a rather less than independent fashion, inflating the currency enough that growth increased from zero to seven percent.

I've only ever seen this mentioned in Perlstein's book on Nixon, and, given the inflationary and economic troubles that plagued the decade, I don't feel it receives nearly enough public scorn.