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Reply #21: McGovern won the nomination because most DEMS wanted him to win. [View All]

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Smarmie Doofus

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Sun Jan-27-08 01:49 AM
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21. McGovern won the nomination because most DEMS wanted him to win.

They turned out in the primaries and he routed Humphrey, Muskie and the rest of the DEM establishment.

Superdelegates fixed no problems at all. They helped select losing nominees in '80, 84 '88 and '00 and '04.

McGovern did about as well as Humphrey did in the popular vote in '68, subsequent mythology to the contrary nowithstanding. He got 29 million votes compared with Hubert's 31 million, despite the fact that he ( McG) was running against a sitting president with a huge financial advantage in the middle of a war.

The electoral landslide developed because the states carried by Wallace in the '68 race went for Nixon in '72.

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