| − | The liberal George S. McGovern, the Democratic nominee for President in 1972 stood for abortion, defeatism and neo-liberalism.{{fact}} McGovern was the final push in the Democratic party's disastrous move from American to leftist values.{{who says}} Helms detested this and courageously left the Democratic party, which was far more popular in the South as a whole, for the Republican party, which had been the catalyst in the war of Northern Aggression a century before. Guided, in part, by the conservative policies of the Republican Candidate, Richard M. Nixon, Mr. Helms lead a victorious campaign against his opponent, Democrat Nick Galifianakis. Mr. Helms's campaign succeeded in associating Galifiankis to his liberal mentor McGovern. Galifianakis attempted to play the "race card" (Galifianakis was Greek), but voters saw through this to lend a 120,000 vote margin to Mr. Helms.{{fact}} | + | The liberal George S. McGovern, the Democratic nominee for President in 1972 stood for abortion, defeatism and neo-liberalism.{{fact}} McGovern was the final push in the Democratic party's disastrous move from American to leftist values.{{who says}} Helms detested this and courageously left the Democratic party, which was far more popular in the South as a whole, for the Republican party, which had been the catalyst in the war of Northern Aggression a century before. Guided, in part, by the conservative policies of the Republican Candidate, Richard M. Nixon, Mr. Helms lead a victorious campaign against his opponent, Democrat Nick Galifianakis. Mr. Helms's campaign succeeded in associating Galifiankis to his liberal mentor McGovern. Galifianakis attempted to play the "race card" (Galifianakis was Greek), but voters saw through this to lend a 120,000 vote margin to Mr. Helms.<ref>http://www.answers.com/topic/jesse-helms</ref> |