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...general, Democrats are suffering because they have lost their principal platform: anti-Nixonism. While they enjoyed gleeful unity as long as Watergate flourished, its resolution now exposes the deep conflicts and divisions that plague a party encompassing both George Wallace on the right and George McGovern on the left...
...economically distressed also tended to be blue-collar workers (53%) and married with children (51%). About three-fifths have incomes of $10,000 or more a year. Two out of three label themselves as Democrats, compared with 55% of the population as a whole, and more voted for George McGovern (40%) than for Richard Nixon...
...thirds of the socially resentful are Democrats, but unlike voters in economic distress, they cast their ballots for Nixon (43%) over McGovern (30%) in 1972. But 38% said they would have preferred George Wallace if he had run for the presidency...
...time of the 1972 election the radical "threat" to American society, always exaggerated, had largely spent itself. But Nixon chose to run against the 1960s - against radicalism, excess, permissiveness - a strategy in which he was greatly aided by McGovern's ill-considered and irresponsible economic schemes, and by the vaguely "revolutionary" slogans put about by some of his wilder and woollier supporters...
Among Democratic leaders, none gloated over their old adversary. Hubert Humphrey described the Nixon address as "possibly the best speech the President has ever made." George McGovern expressed sympathy "for the trials [the Nixons] have suffered and for the ordeal still ahead." Edward Kennedy rejoiced that "the night of Watergate is over, the Constitution is safe, and Amer ica can become whole again...