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- Title: Mcgovern Beats Nixon: How the South Dakota Senator Remade the Right (Ideas) (George Mcgovern and Richard Nixon)
- Author : The American Conservative
- Release Date : January 12, 2009
- Genre: Politics & Current Events,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 66 KB
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GEORGE MCGOVERN is enjoying a renaissance. The 86-year-old ex-senator best known for losing the 1972 presidential election in an avalanche--he carried only one state, Massachusetts--won new friends among libertarians last spring with two startlingly laissez-faire op-eds in the Wall Street Journal. He'll receive further attention in January when Times Books publishes his Abraham Lincoln, the latest installment in the Sean Wilentzedited American Presidents series. But sweetest of all for the senator from Mitchell, South Dakota, in November he finally came back to win the White House--or so you might think. Republicans had a hard time distinguishing Barack Obama from the Democrat Nixon trounced 36 years earlier. Writing at National Review Online, Victor Davis Hanson christened the Illinois senator, "the Second Coming of McGovern." In Commentary, Joshua Muravchik warned that Obama "comes to us from a background farther to the Left than any presidential nominee since McGovern, or perhaps ever." His associates certainly seemed to come straight out of the McGovern bestiary: conservatives pounced on the opportunity to tie Obama to the New Left (via Bill Ayers) and black radicalism (via Rev. Jeremiah Wright). Among liberals, Hillary Clinton supporter Harold Ickes and the New Republic's John Judis also ventured comparisons between the 1972 and 2008 Democratic nominees.