Reply #4: People were growing disgusted by the war

[Warpy]

mainly because they couldn't understand why a bunch of little people in black pajamas and with no real industry were so persistently waging a war of attrition against the US. The "body counts" of Vienamese dead would seem to have killed the country twice over, yet every day there were more names of local dead kids in the newspaper. The population was divided into two camps, the "get out" camp and the "nuke em" camps. Both agreed that both Johnson and Nixon had bungled that war.

I remember people my parents' age being disgusted that the Watergate breakin was being used as the pretext to get Nixon out because there were so many real things he did in office that should have been pursued by another do nothing Congress.

The do nothing Congress was getting a little worried about that, and that's why both parties started making impeachment noises to Nixon to save their own precious backsides.

There wasn't much of an electoral revolt. Carter was elected over Ford mostly because Ford had failed to deal with the OPEC oil shocks and resulting inflation (which was only just beginning) and partially because he'd pardoned Nixon and let the whole crooked bunch off the hook.