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Explanation: In the 1972 US presidential elections, the Republican Party candidate for president was Richard Nixon - at the time battling (and denying) accusations that he illegally spied on domestic political enemies. The Democratic Party candidate was George McGovern, a New Deal liberal who believed in relief for the working class and was against US involvement in the Vietnam War.
The 'American Independent Party', a pro-segregationist party, ran an extreme antisemite by the name of John G. Schmitz, who would later be expelled from the far-right John Birch society for... being too far-right. Y I K E S.
Nixon would go on to win the election. More evidence about his involvement in domestic spying would later come out, and he would be forced to resign.
G-good choice, America...?
The fact that the US failed to elect a man named McGovern to be their president is almost the most disappointing failing of the American electorate in history.