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In 1972, the frontrunner for the Democratic presidential nomination was Maine Senator Edmund Muskie. He was a popular choice, so popular that he beat Nixon in early opinion polls. Yet Nixon sabotaged his primary candidacy with the desired result of George McGovern becoming the party's nominee. McGovern ran a disastrous race that lost 49 out of 50 states. But what if Nixon's dirty tricks against Muskie hadn't worked, and Edmund Muskie - not McGovern - became Nixon's general election opponent in 1972?
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