The Nixon voters I’ve talked to really did believe he was a great candidate, and were deeply betrayed by the corruption because they had such high hopes, but it’s a real small sample size.
Can’t speak as to any personal experience with Nixon voters myself, but “Tricky Dick” wasn’t a prominent pre presidency nickname of his for nothing. He didn’t even win a plurality of the popular vote in the '68 GOP primaries, despite half his competitors either dropping out or starting late.
I just don’t think of the hippie movement as a bunch of “lesser evil” folks was more my line of thinking.
I mean, the hippie movement were a very small group and largely disdained by leftist political junkies of the period. But more than that, do you think hippies who voted for, say, JFK, LBJ, or even McGovern, thought that those candidates’ positions on, say, drugs, were anything but a lesser evil?
Can’t speak as to any personal experience with Nixon voters myself, but “Tricky Dick” wasn’t a prominent pre presidency nickname of his for nothing. He didn’t even win a plurality of the popular vote in the '68 GOP primaries, despite half his competitors either dropping out or starting late.
I mean, the hippie movement were a very small group and largely disdained by leftist political junkies of the period. But more than that, do you think hippies who voted for, say, JFK, LBJ, or even McGovern, thought that those candidates’ positions on, say, drugs, were anything but a lesser evil?