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Question: Who would you have voted for?
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Richard Nixon (Republican)		  
#2
George McGovern (Democratic)		  
#3
John Schmitz (American)		  
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Other/Write-in		  
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Partisan results
Total Voters: 43

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« on: September 14, 2014, 02:01:33 PM »
1789: 62.1% Anti-Federalist; George Washington
1796: 63.0% Thomas Jefferson
1804: 85.7% Thomas Jefferson
1808: 50.0% George Clinton
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1820: 60.0% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1832: 51.5% Henry Clay
1840: 42.9% Martin Van Buren
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1848: 83.3% Martin Van Buren
1852: 69.2% John Hale
1860: 71.7% Abraham Lincoln
1864: 71.4% Abraham Lincoln
1868: 77.1% Ulysses Grant
1872: 65.4% Ulysses Grant
1880: 44.8% James Garfield
1888: 51.6% Grover Cleveland
1896: 32.5% John Palmer
1904: 51.4% Theodore Roosevelt
1912: 37.5% William Taft
1936: 45.5% Franklin Roosevelt
1944: 56.8% Franklin Roosevelt
1948: 35.7% Harry Truman
1952: 63.9% Dwight Eisenhower
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson
1968: 44.4% Hubert Humphrey
1980: 26.2% Ronald Reagan
1992: 33.9% William Clinton
2008: 53.8% Barack Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1972

I would probably go with McGovern, as Vietnam would be my number 1 issue at the time. And knowing Nixon would almost certainly win, I would use the vote more to simply protest everything else he did, not to actually vote full-heartedly for McGovern.
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« Reply #1 on: September 14, 2014, 02:04:06 PM »
Schmitz or Munn. Voted for Schmitz in the poll.
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« Reply #2 on: September 14, 2014, 02:07:45 PM »
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« Reply #3 on: September 14, 2014, 02:13:31 PM »
Nixon
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« Reply #4 on: September 14, 2014, 02:34:32 PM »
McGovern
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« Reply #5 on: September 14, 2014, 02:55:47 PM »
Nixon without hindsight, McGovern with
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« Reply #6 on: September 14, 2014, 03:41:11 PM »
McGovern easily. 
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« Reply #7 on: September 14, 2014, 03:52:22 PM »
McGovern as a protest vote against Vietnam.
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« Reply #8 on: September 14, 2014, 07:23:39 PM »
Quote from: National Progressive on September 14, 2014, 02:55:47 PM
Nixon without hindsight, McGovern Hospers with
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« Reply #9 on: September 14, 2014, 10:37:25 PM »
Quote from: ChairmanSanchez on September 14, 2014, 03:52:22 PM
McGovern as a protest vote against Vietnam.

At the time, but I would vote McGovern enthusiastically with hindsight.
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« Reply #10 on: September 16, 2014, 06:28:46 AM »
What's with all the votes for Schmitz? He's a far right conspiracy theorist, the Alex Jones of the day (though to be fair 'far-right' isn't the best way to describe Jones).
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« Reply #11 on: September 16, 2014, 06:42:33 AM »
FDR barely scraped home in 1936 and McGovern is heading for a landslide in 1972. Oh Atlas.
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« Reply #12 on: September 16, 2014, 10:21:21 AM »
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« Reply #13 on: September 18, 2014, 05:53:13 PM »
Nixon (sane).

And with hindsight, I'd still have gone with Nixon.
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