George McGovern Born: 1923 Filed from: South Dakota NH Primaries 1968 1972 1984 Votes (D) scattering (D) 33,007 (D) 5,217 Platform: The Peace Candidate

Because Maine Senator Ed Muskie failed to get his staff's publicly predicted 50% of the vote in NH's 1972 primary, this South Dakota Senator who finished a strong second went on to win the Democratic nomination. He ran against Richard Nixon, carrying only Massachusetts and Washington, DC. He was a social liberal who believed it was not patriotic to commit young Americans to war unless our national security is absolutely involved.