gorkay
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« on: August 13, 2004, 06:59:23 PM » |
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To get back to the topic...
1. The Democrats failed to nominate their strongest candidate that year.
2. The Republicans took some underhanded steps to assure that the Democrats did not nominate their strongest candidate (although it might have happened anyway).
3. The Democratic convention that year was a disorganized, uncontrolled mess that turned off voters (and was, along with the '68 convention, one of the main reasons that subseqent conventions were tightly scripted).
4. McGovern didn't get to give his acceptance speech until 4 in the morning, so very few people heard it.
5. The Vice-Presidential nomination was a debacle, with McGovern offering it to a number of people who turned it down, only to have it accepted by Eagleton, who had to be de-nominated (another debacle).
6. The visits to China and Russia and the sham "peace" agreement Kissinger patched together in Vietnam had Nixon riding high.
7. Nixon refused to debate McGovern.
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