About the republican party being destoryed. An historical perspective - 1972 [View all]
...I was young and smart and knew everything: 
..Actually I knew very little about very little. That year I worked for George McGovern, and I worked very hard. I wrote position papers for the Illinois McGovern chairman, worked the streets & went door to door. I even got some old McGovern political pamphlets..yes from 72..(would you like one?)
..Anyway it was quite an experience, and the day the votes were counted I was terribly dismayed. What is going to happen to our party and our beliefs?. George McGovern won one state, (Mass) & Nixon won the rest.
..Electoral votes: Nixon 520,.........McGovern 49
Popular vote.........47,100,000 ....29,100,000
..I thought it was the destruction of the Democratic Party..I was wrong. It was not the destruction of our party,
it was a one time horrible campaign by McGovern, & good campaign by the incumbent Nixon. Watergate was
still a minor break in that had little to go on. I remember talking to some people and one fellow slammed the door when I mentioned, "Watergate."...
We lost so bad, that I were sure we would never win again. We did win 4 years later (1976) with Jimmy Carter.
What is the point about this. The republican party will not be destroyed by a single loss. There is lots and lots of money there, and republicans will take this loss, and the blame will go where it belongs: to Donald Trump.
No one knows what will happen in the future....Anything can happen and already has.
......( This is just a perspective of 2020 looking back at 72) ...
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