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In reply to the discussion: 1972 McGovern campaign, what would you have done ? [View all]book_worm
(15,951 posts)Heck he even split the college vote with Nixon. But his team didn't handle the vice presidential nomination correctly. They didn't do enough digging and Eagleton wasn't about to tell the truth. I think it looked terrible afterward for him to ask so many people to be VP and publicly they turned him down. He wanted Teddy Kennedy, but Teddy told him he didn't want to be VP, and he should have accepted that and gone with somebody who actually wanted the job. Instead of losing 49 states he might have only lost 45. But since he did select Eagleton he should have stuck with him especially after the "1000 percent" statement. He could have turned a lot of people around about mental health issues after all Eagleton stayed in the Senate until 2002 and was an effective senator in all that time.