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Massachusetts managed to appropriate its own share of the spotlight briefly in 1972 after years with a dogged Democratic reputation and not much visibility. The '72 primary gave Massachusetts a hefty ego boost--its majority vote for Sen. George McGovern, coming on the same day as his victory in Pennsylvania, clinched his nomination and extinguished Edmund Muskie's waning hopes. Of course, the Bay State went on to greater glory and better bumper-sticker copy ("Don't Blame Me, I'm From Massachusetts") as the only state to vote for McGovern over former President Richard M. Nixon in the general...
...George McGovern played the same numbers game McCarthy had, with equal success. The first to declare for the Democratic nomination--more than a year before New Hampshire--McGovern quietly built a youthful but highly efficient organization even as poll after poll showed negligible progress. Facing an ostensibly weak field, front-runner Muskie was1
...planting Watergate seeds [the Canuck letter, et. al] as part of Nixon's sabotage program. Ed "Big Ed" Muskie, the Maine senator with "a free ride" to the Democratic nomination, breaks down on the back of a flatbed truck, flustered by Manchester Union-Leader publisher Generalissimo William Loeb. George McGovern, the soft-spoken South Dakotan teacher and World War II bomber pilot, reminds enough voters that Vietnam hasn't gone away to keep Muskie under 50 per cent and get his own candidacy rolling. Nixon? He's too engrossd with Peking, Chou En-Lai and the Great Wall...
...expectations game as played by the press is hardly new: in 1968, long-shot Eugene McCarthy "beat" President Lyndon Johnson by rolling up 42% of the New Hampshire primary vote to Johnson's mere 49.5%. Four years later, George McGovern "beat" the heavy favorite, Edmund Muskie, in the same state by polling a decisive 37% to Muskie's meager 46%. " 'Unexpected' is one of the words reporters use to cover their mistakes," says Political Columnist Richard Reeves. "Did the voters do something they didn't expect to do on Election Day? Of course not." Adds...
...Hampshire. yet his competitive defeat in the Maine caucus ended up as a moral victory, and now Carter is in the historically unenviable position of heading the pack into New Hampshire. Lyndon Johnson needed a big win here in 1968, Ed Muskie in 1972; Eugene McCarthy and George McGovern refused to give it to them, and the campaigns turned in favor of the two narrow losers. Unless Carter repeates his Iowa performance, gaining a majority, the momentum will shift...