Thanks to ABC News

 Today we honor the legacy of the recently deceased Senator George McGovern.

Despite his infamous defeat in a landslide election to Richard Nixon in 1972, McGovern ran for President again in 1984.

The kicker is, had voters known about Watergate in the same timely fashion we learn of Presidential snafus today, McGovern might have won the 1972 campaign. Whomp whomp.

Just think what the country had been like had voters been better informed and Nixon had lost! 

With today’s incredible access to information, it is easy for we voters can stay on top of the campaign news… if we are motivated. And we should stay motivated to be sure mistakes like Nixon are not replicated.

The other big lesson from the Senator: don’t accept anything lying down.

After four years in the House of Representatives, he was one of the senators for South Dakota from 1963 to 1981. He helped create the Food for Peace program, which sent US food overseas as a form of international aid, and became its first director in 1961. 

Former President Clinton said of McGovern:

I believe no other presidential candidate ever has had such an enduring impact in defeat.