The "pack journalism" surrounding this election was critiqued in Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus. Priorto a primary in this election, a forged letter deriding French-Canadians as "Canucks" was used to ruin thechances of candidate Edmund Muskie. Pauline Kael supposedly claimed that "everyone I know voted" for thiselection's loser. A candidate in this election used the phrase "1000 percent" after it emerged that his runningmate had received electric shock therapy, leading that running mate, Thomas Eagleton, to be replaced withSargent Shriver. The incumbent in this election was popular for his policy of Vietnamization, which involvedwithdrawal of US troops. For 10 points, name this election in which George McGovern was defeated byincumbent Richard Nixon.
The "pack journalism" surrounding this election was critiqued in Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus. Priorto a primary in this election, a forged letter deriding French-Canadians as "Canucks" was used to ruin thechances of candidate Edmund Muskie. Pauline Kael supposedly claimed that "everyone I know voted" for thiselection's loser. A candidate in this election used the phrase "1000 percent" after it emerged that his runningmate had received electric shock therapy, leading that running mate, Thomas Eagleton, to be replaced withSargent Shriver. The incumbent in this election was popular for his policy of Vietnamization, which involvedwithdrawal of US troops. For 10 points, name this election in which George McGovern was defeated byincumbent Richard Nixon.
The "pack journalism" surrounding this election was critiqued in Timothy Crouse's The Boys on the Bus.
U.S. Presidential Election of 1972