1972 Democratic Party Platform is so progressive as to be off the scale today

[Warpy]

102. Actually, Nixon war riding high because of racial bigots and hippie haters

The economy was not wonderful and Republicans were shitting bricks over a 4%/year inflation rate, the upper end of what's built into fiat currency. The stock market was stuck in place, although earnings were relatively fantastic. Unemployment had crept up, it always does under Republican administrations, and entrepreneurship was stifled by the lack of seed money.

The war had not ended in 1972 and people had begun to realize his secret plan to end the war was to drag it out as long as possible.

Extreme liberalism didn't sink McGovern. It was a so-so economy and the righteous indignation of older Americans against youth and uppity blacks that were his problems, plus just running against an incumbent. He was a sacrificial lamb, party conservatives claiming ever since he lost that no liberal could ever win again.

At least I got to put a "Don't Blame Me, I'm from Massachusetts" sticker on the car.