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McGovern won his only state in the cradle of liberty taking Massachusetts's 14 electoral votes with 58 per cent of the popular vote. Popular GOP Senator Edward Brooke swamped opponent John Droney as expected with 57 per cent of the vote...
...well enough there and lost the state. Nixon garnered the Prairie State's 26 electoral votes with 57 per cent of the popular vote. Republican Senator Charles Percy turned back a challenge from Roman Pucinski as expected with 60 per cent of the vote. In perhaps GOP governor Richard Ogilvie and Democratic challenger Daniel Walker were locked in a tight race that would probably not be decided until the woe hours of the morning...
Kansas in Nixon Country, and the President took the state's seven electoral votes with 65 per cent of the popular vote. Democratic Governor Robert Docking survived the GOP landslide with 54 per cent of the vote. Veteran GOP Senator James B. Pearson sailed smoothly back to Washington...
...Eagleton's home state of Missouri vented its rice against McGovern, giving its 12 electoral votes to the President. Nixon carried the state with 59 per cent of the vote, pulling GOP gubernatorial hopeful Christopher Bond along with him with 56 per cent...
Nixon won Montana as expected, but failed to bring down antiwar Democrat Senator Lee Metcalf, who beat Republican Henry Hibbard with 54 per cent of the tally. The GOP's Edward Smith appeared to have won the gubernatorial mansion...