George McGovern always makes me laugh. If I remember the numbers accurately, George voted for himself, his wife voted for him, my aunt voted for him, another woman I know voted for him and Hunter S. Thompson voted for him. Everybody else who voted in 1972 went for Nixon.
The other woman I know who voted for him I only met a few weeks ago. A crowd of 50-year-olds and me (who was born the year Nixon beat McGovern) and they were all trying to remember who ran against Nixon the second time. I told them. The woman argued with me. She told me she stood in line for three hours to vote against Richard Nixon in 1972, but she couldn't remember who she voted for. I told her over and over again that if it was Nixon in '72 she voted for McGovern, but she insisted that wasn't right.
But the conversation had one good outcome other than the obvious one of amusing me ... I finally found out where McGovern's fifth vote came from!
Are you sure his wife voted for him? I know my mom did. Paul Newman came to our little town to stump for him & mom has a real weakness for blue eyes...
I think George Wallace also ran in 72, so she could have voted for him.
"If I remember the numbers accurately, George voted for himself, his wife voted for him, my aunt voted for him, another woman I know voted for him and Hunter S. Thompson voted for him."
LOL!! You forgot that moonbat woman from New York (I think) who said that she didn't know anyone who voted for Nixon!! Can't remember her name -- anyone remember?