Английская Википедия:1972 Republican Party presidential primaries

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From March 7 to June 6, 1972, voters of the Republican Party chose its nominee for president in the 1972 United States presidential election. Incumbent President Richard Nixon was again selected as the nominee through a series of primary elections and caucuses culminating in the 1972 Republican National Convention held from August 21 to August 23, 1972, in Miami, Florida.

Candidates

Nominee

Candidate			Most recent office	Home state	Campaign Withdrawal date	Popular vote	Contests won	Running mate
Richard Nixon	Файл:Richard Nixon presidential portrait.jpg		President of the United States (1969–1974)	California California	Файл:Nixon Agnew 1972 campaign logo.svg (Campaign) Secured nomination: August 23, 1972	5,378,704 (96.9%)	18	Spiro Agnew

Withdrew during primaries

Candidate			Most recent office	Home state	Campaign Withdrawal date	Popular vote	Contests won
John M. Ashbrook	Файл:JohnMAshbrook.jpg		U.S. Representative from Ohio (1961–1982)	Ohio Ohio	Файл:Johnashbrook1972.gif	311,543 (5.0%)	0
Pete McCloskey	Файл:Pete McCloskey.jpg		U.S. Representative from California (1967–1983)	California California	Файл:Pete McCloskey presidential campaign, 1972.png	132,731 (2.1%)	0

Polling

National polling

Poll source	Publication	Шаблон:Vert header	Шаблон:Vert header	Шаблон:Vert header
Gallup	Feb. 1972	5%	6%	Шаблон:Party shading/Republican |83%

Overview of the race

Nixon was a popular incumbent president in 1972, as he seemed to have reached détente with China and the USSR. He shrugged off the first glimmers of that, after the election, because of the massive Watergate scandal.

Polls showed that Nixon had a strong lead. He was challenged by two minor candidates, liberal Pete McCloskey of California and conservative John Ashbrook of Ohio. McCloskey ran as an anti-Vietnam war candidate dedicated to a much more clearer liberal position compared to Nixon's ambiguity approach within the party, while Ashbrook was dedicated to a much more clearer conservative position than Nixon and opposed Nixon's détente policies towards China and the Soviet Union. In the New Hampshire primary McCloskey's platform of peace garnered 19.7% of the vote to Nixon's 67.9%, with Ashbrook receiving 10.9% and comedian Pat Paulsen receiving 1.1%. Having previously stated that he would withdraw from the race had he not achieved 20% of the vote, McCloskey did so.

Nixon won 1,347 of the 1,348 delegates to the GOP convention, with McCloskey receiving the vote of one delegate from New Mexico.

See also

• 1972 Democratic Party presidential primaries