Word: mcgoverns
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...always thought that Massachusetts voters were the smartest voters in the country." former Senator George S. McGovern jokes in nearly every campaign speech he makes here...
Massachusetts, say the workers in the South Dakotan's campaign, is McGovern country. The Bay State was the only state in the Union to cast its electoral votes for McGovern in the 1972 presidential election. Although the District of Columbia also threw its support to the Democrat, Richard M. Nixon won that election in one of the biggest landslides in American political history...
...Nixon's demise two years later rubbed some of the tarnish from McGovern's defeat, and McGovern's one-man-band campaign--he has little money and is the only candidate who refuses Secret Service protection--has buffed the sentimental glare to a shine...
...been wonderful to see what has happened to him," says Michael Goldman, a Boston political consultant. "When he first jumped into the race, everyone ridiculed him as a has-been, but now you hear talk about McGovern being an important part of any Democratic administration that's elected, possibly as a Cabinet member...
...McGovern, who is named with the Rev. Jesse L. Jackson as the most liberal in the field of candidates, has made Massachusetts his home since the New Hampshire primary, in contrast to the other hopefuls, who are staging their major battles in the South...