Essay: Richard Nixon’s landslide victory over Democrat George McGovern signaled a political realignment whose consequences are still being felt 50 years later.
Presidential reputations have little to do with electoral performance. Abraham Lincoln, our most beloved president, did not even win 40% of the popular vote when he ran in 1860. Richard Nixon, arguably our least beloved, won an overwhelming victory on Nov. 7, 1972—50 years ago this week.
When the results were in, Nixon had defeated South Dakota Senator George McGovern by nearly 20 million votes and by an even wider margin in the electoral college . It seemed like a historic realignment, one that would position Republicans for decades of success.
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