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| rdfs:label | - United States Presidential Election, 1976 (New England Secession)
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| rdfs:comment | - The United States presidential election, 1976, was a democratic election held in the United States to decide the nation's next president. The incumbent president, Robert Kennedy, left office after honoring a campaign pledge during the 1972 election season to only have one term as president. Kennedy had won in an utter landslide in 1972. The Socialists nominated George McGovern, Kennedy's Vice President, of South Dakota to fill his shoes. McGovern was perceived to be more extremist than Kennedy.
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| election name | - United States presidential election, 1976
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| nominee | - George McGovern
- Strom Thurmond
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| home state | - South Carolina
- South Dakota
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| Party | - Socialist
- Christian Democratic
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| running mate | - Edmund Muskie
- Lester Maddox
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| abstract | - The United States presidential election, 1976, was a democratic election held in the United States to decide the nation's next president. The incumbent president, Robert Kennedy, left office after honoring a campaign pledge during the 1972 election season to only have one term as president. Kennedy had won in an utter landslide in 1972. The Socialists nominated George McGovern, Kennedy's Vice President, of South Dakota to fill his shoes. McGovern was perceived to be more extremist than Kennedy. This was the first election the Christian Democrats took part in. The Christian Democratic Party was fromed in 1974 by the right-wingers in the Republican Party, which had collapased that same year. The CDP went off on a terrible start for their first presidential election, however, as the extremist J. Strom Thurmond was their nominee. His support was rendered null in solid Socialist or swing states, and was very extremist. His nomination in the very first election the CDP took part in eventually led to a reform in 1977 which moved the CDP from an pro-segragation anti-Civil Rights paleoconservative platform to a more moderate party, but still with strong ties to Thurmond's crowd. The Vice Presidential candidates were Senator Edmund Muskie of Maine and former Governor Lester Maddox of Georgia. Muskie was seen as much more Moderate than Maddox. In 1979, McGovern suffered a mental breakdown as he was unable to deal with the pressure of being president. He resigned in March and gave the presidency over to Muskie.
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