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...only 82% of the black vote and the analysis by Pollster Louis Harris gave him 87.3%, the Joint Center is considered more reliable since it compiled statistics from 1,165 precincts where blacks account for 87% or more of the population. Carter's showing compares well with George McGovern's 87% of the black vote in 1972, Hubert Humphrey's 85% in 1968 and Lyndon Johnson's 94% in 1964. When a large group votes with such near unanimity, it puts a burden on a two-party system. Ultimately, the group could continually deprive one party...
Torn asunder by George McGovern's poorly executed and unsettling "New Left" campaign in 1972, the old Democratic coalition-for decades a dominant force in national elections-seemed to have passed forever from the political scene. Consisting of a strange collection"of minority bedfellows-ethnic blue-collar workers (mostly Catholic), blacks, Southern whites, Jews and campus-oriented intellectuals-it appeared unlikely to be born again under any Democratic presidential nominee, let alone a small-town Georgian. Yet on Election Day 1976, the coalition reemerged. Some parts creaked badly, some were hardly recognizable, and others seemed to be missing...
Carter made up for some of the Democratic losses among coalition groups by capturing nearly 50% of the white Protestant vote, compared with 30% for George McGovern in 1972 and generally higher than Democratic candidates have received in recent elections. Some of this gain obviously represents the white Baptist switch. But much of it comes from rural areas where farmers felt an affinity with their Georgia counterpart and hostility toward the Ford Administration because of the 1974 embargo on wheat sales to the Soviet Union. In Montgomery County, a rural wheat-growing area in southeastern Kansas that usually gives...
...good citizen not to vote," he declared. "If 60% of the country did not vote, it might shake up the political process, and that would be fine because it needs shaking up." His reasoning: "If the people who voted for Nixon because they didn't like McGovern had not voted at all, Nixon would have won by a much smaller margin and might have behaved differently as President...
There was also in key Northern states like New York the partial return of urban ethnic and Catholic voters after the defection over McGovern. The heavily Catholic Queens borough of New York City gave Carter a margin 10 per cent greater than Humphrey received in 1968. The South Side of Milwaukee was largely responsible for Carter's surprising win in Wisconsin; the mainly Polish, Lithuanian and South Slav voters of that area gave him a vote upwards of 55 per cent...