Why did McGovern lose so badly?

[lidaker]

McGovern seemed to represent the leftist youth movement who smoked weed and had long hair and all that stuff. He seemed to much to the lest, to much opposed to the war. And he wasn't a good candidate - no charisma, no media skills. And there were a bunch of minor and major scandals eroding his credibility. His reputation as a plain-speaking guy was severely damaged when he forced his first VP candidate Terry Eagleton to step down due to mental ill-health, after first having said that he stood by him by "one thousand percent".