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ed to exploit Nixon’s “bad temper.” Another weakness of Nixon, according to Kilpatrick, is Nixon’s poor campaigning on the trail; his aides kept him off the trail for the most part. He also cited Scott’s victory in Virginia as example of good campaigning by connecting Spong, a man of “superior intellect,” to McGovern, thus dumping “this very able man from the Senate.”
The eighth postulate says that there must be a plateau where the electorate can “catch its breath.” He cited the Eisenhower years as an example of this, where little social change came about but everybody was happy. “The Happiest hours of mankind are those on the blank pages of history books,” Kilpatrick said. According to him McGovern just came along at the wrong time when the country wanted to relax after the social change of the Kennedy-Johnson years and to some extent the early Nixon years.
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