the 1972 landslide happened due to circumstances similar to 2024: > weak leader at the top of the ticket > the 'official' party supporting grossly unpopular policies > candidates down-ticket having to distance themselves from their own party and the top of the ticket. in 1972 the issue was cross-district busing; which the public saw as an education issue; but the dnc misread as a civil rights issue. the radicals pushed through a late night pro-busing plank at the convention, and it was game over down the ticket. it got so bad, that the dnc nominee for us senator in michigan (who was ag at the time), made a point of rushing out to file a lawsuit to stop his own party.
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