America Votes 1972

Who do you vote for in the United States Presidential Election of 1972?

  • (R) President Richard Nixon / Vice President Spiro Agnew

    Votes: 26 47.3%
  • (D) Senator George McGovern / Former Ambassador Sargent Shriver

    Votes: 25 45.5%
  • (American Independent) Rep. John G. Schmitz / Thomas J. Anderson

    Votes: 1 1.8%
  • (Libertarian) John Hospers / Theodora Nathan

    Votes: 3 5.5%

  • Total voters
    55
There's a poll coming.

Inspired by RB's, JoeMulk's, and lounge60's threads...

It's 1972, and the Vietnam War is in full rage. President Nixon, who is running for re-election, is running on a platform of Vietnamization, while Senator George McGovern, who narrowly won the Democratic primaries and the nomination, is running on a Peace platform.

And because I should, I decided to put the American Independent Party and the Libertarian Party on the ballot as well. Now vote!
 
This is a difficult one. I do not like or trust Nixon, but he seemed to have a handle on the job. While I agree with left-wing McGovern on the war, he seems too much of a risk on domestic policy. None of the main third party candidates seem appealing either.

I would probably have voted for Linda Jenness of the Socialist Workers Party, purely on the basis that she was 31, and thus too young to be president.
 

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I hadn't heard of that American Independent VP candidate, so for a moment I thought you'd added a Thande option to a serious poll :p
 
TNF, since when is one of Taft-Hartley's principal drafters pro-labor?

He wasn't pro-labor, but he wasn't openly hostile after the fifties, at least. Nixon had a great respect for the labor movement after then, especially after they handed him a drubbing in the 1954 and 1958 midterm elections. IIRC, the AFL-CIO actually endorsed him over McGovern in 1972, did they not? At any rate, McGovern is at fault for not being one of the votes to repeal Taft-Hartley in the sixties when LBJ brought it up for a vote. That, and he's really thoroughly anti-EFCA now.
 
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