Post by mcnutt on Oct 22, 2017 19:48:29 GMT
I read in Theodore White's Making of the President 1972, that Pierre Salinger championed Sargent Shriver as McGovern's running mate. Also that after winning the nomination, McGovern assembled a group of advisors to help select a candidate for Vice Presidential candidate. Shriver was viewed favorably by this committee. McGovern called Shriver and found out he was on a business trip to Moscow. So Shriver was dropped because he could not get back in time to accept the nomination. ITTL Salinger persuades Shriver not go to Moscow and come to the convention instead. McGovern selects him at the convention. There is no Eagleton affair. How much does this help McGovern? If you switch three percent of the vote McGovern would have won Minnesota and Rhode Island. With four percent of the vote, he would have won South Dakota. Could Nixon have won in a forty-six or forty-five state landslide.