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McGovern was thought to have a chance for Michigan's 21 electoral votes but Nixon still beat the South Dakota Senator with 58 per cent of the vote. Republican Senate minority whip Robert Griffin beat down a stiff challenge from Democrat state Attorney General Frank Kelley to return to Washington with 5-4 per cent of the vote...
...North Dakota...
Nixon handily won North Dakota's three electoral votes with 64 per cent of the popular total, but Democrat Arthur Link and Republican Richard Larsen were battling right down to the wire for the gubernatorial mansion...
...result is the exhaustive effort of a New York-intellectual brain with an obvious leftward slant trying to comprehend the phenomenon of a Methodist from South Dakota and a shrewd dealer of the Wad running against each other for President. Mailer remains throughout skeptical, pedantic, perceptive, and, in spite of himself, expressive of his admiration for all characters in the principled or unprincipled pursuit of their goals...
...biography of McGovern, Robert Anson quotes the South Dakota Senator as saying that his 1960 Senate campaign against Karl Mundt was his worst political effort. "It was my worst campaign. I hated him so much I lost my sense of balance. I made some careless charges. I got on the defensive during the campaign and was rattled. I started explaining and answering things I should have ignored. It was hard to get a book on Mundt...