US Presidential elections | Popularity Contest |What the Ad men say | 1972 Presidential election

The US Presidential campaign gets under way, This week takes a look at the way the presidential hopefuls are being projected in the Primary elections - the popularity contest that will finally sort out the men who will face each other at the ballot box in the November elections.
Peter Taylor reports
First shown: 09/03/1972
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[@4-dman464]

The best book about the 1972 presidential elections from the primaries to the bitter end is FEAR & LOATHING ON THE CAMPAIGN TRAIL 1972 by Hunter Thompson. By a long mile the best written, most fluent, artfully paced, unflinchingly direct style, and researched on the road at every stage by personal encounters and by reviewing press stories.

[@ForzaJersey]

Humphrey seemed a throwback to 1930s politicians. Lindsay seemed like a Kennedyesque candidate.

[@luisreyes1963]

And George Wallace was the prototype for Drumpf.

[@robertortiz-wilson1588]

​@luisreyes1963 try to type something less stupid.

[@davidlees2963]

In the 1972 Florida Democratic Primary, Wallace romped to a win with 41.65% of the vote. Humphery came 2nd with 18.56%, Scoop Jackson with 13.46% and Muskie 4th with 8.9%. However, the ultimate nominee McGovern only got 6.19% in this primary.
And as everyone knows he then managed to thumped in the general election by Nixon.

[@frankdsouza2425]

Sloppy typing, David Lees.

[@lennylaa1686]

''get'' thumped.......

[@jasonayres]

(16:00) It's not "Mr. Cartwright", as Lorne Greene reminds him. .
Certain names I could never forget.
Especially when you're talking with him on the green lawn.

[@davidlees2963]

Don Draper had really let himself go.

[@luisreyes1963]

What a shame John V. Lindsay didn't get more support. He would have spared us the embarrassment of a Humphrey campaign. 🤦‍♂️

[@guidadiehl9176]

Watching those Muskie-employed ad-men subtly and cynically 'praise' him while grinning ear-to-ear was quite amusing. You'd never see something like that nowadays - everything has become so much more slick and polished and artificial.

[@billjohnson2081]

It's just as amazing to see actual journalism as it is to see this old footage.

[@PomegranatesWeather]

Wow, literally one year before I was born

[@tghaney3633]

JEB! lol🙂

[@ZackFrisbee]

Some things never change, you can't turn a robot into a person with slogans.

[@WorthlessWinner]

Hubert JEB Humphrey

[@ZackFrisbee]

If only we got Wallace...

[@RandomVidsforthought]

Humphrey would've gotten more electoral votes

[@ZackFrisbee]

@@RandomVidsforthought They had to have him shot because they understood he was picking up steam with northerners. He would have won by slightly lower margins than 1972 Nixon numbers.

[@RandomVidsforthought]

@@ZackFrisbee 🤦‍♂️

[@ZackFrisbee]

@@RandomVidsforthought Are you a goober who thinks segregation wasn’t popular or something? 😝

[@RandomVidsforthought]

@@ZackFrisbee It was popular in the south