Word: dakotas
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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SARGENT SHRIVER came on the screen speaking from his Maryland headquarters. McGovern was losing even in South Dakota. There was a crowd of people standing around the Shriver headquarters; they were cheering. "And my family and I will be looking forward to working with all of you during the next four years," Shriver said. He did not concede or throw Ted Kennedy's hat in the ring for '76. Not quite. The message was supposed to come from South Dakota. ABC was waiting. Then McGovern came...
Back in May, George McGovern trailed President Nixon in the polls by a mere 49 per cent to 41 per cent. The final results of Tuesday's voting showed Nixon trouncing the South Dakota Senator by garnering just under 61 per cent of the vote...
McGovern also did poorly with groups which have traditionally been the backbone of the Democratic party. McGovern became the first Democrat in history to lose a majority of the Roman Catholic vote. The South Dakota Senator also became the first Democrat in recent memory to not carry blue collar workers...
...disclosure nearly two weeks age of seemingly substantial peace negotiations boosted an already soaring Republican campaign. For many voters, the rumored immense of peace deprived the South Dakota senator of his major issue...
Even if McGovern sometimes seemed a little stupid as in the California $1000 give-away blunder, he was a decent and likable fellow. But this winning image disappeared within two weeks, just as most voters were beginning to find out about the unknown from South Dakota who had captured the Democratic nomination...