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fyshing t1_ivfnyk5 wrote
Reply to comment by Dragongala in Common Massachusetts W by Rannrann123
The Massachusetts Archives (at the time, located in the State House) had an exhibit displaying the actual votes cast by the electors for McGovern in the 1972 election.
fyshing t1_ivfnkcy wrote
Reply to Common Massachusetts W by Rannrann123
Nixon got his revenge on Massachusetts by closing the Naval base in Boston. There's a little of it still left: The USS Constitution is based here.
Three years later, Nixon was out because of Watergate. A group of Republican senators told him that he would be convicted in a Senate trial, so he resigned. Gerald Ford (the VP) made himself very unpopular by issuing a blanket pardon to Nixon.
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Reply to comment by cimson-otter in Common Massachusetts W by Rannrann123
Romney actually did something decent: He implemented what was latet called Obamacare, and showed that it worked. But nobody calls it Romneycare.