Who Can Beat Nixon Board Game

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You can participate in the 1972 election by playing Who Can Beat Nixon? You can choose to be one of eight candidates-Nixon, Sen. George McGovern, Sen. Edward Kennedy, Mayor John Lindsay, Sen. Edmund Muskie, Sen. Harold Hughes, Gov. George Wallace, or if those candidates don’t suit you, then run as the “dark horse,” with the name of the candidate of your choice.

Object: Up to seven challengers campaign against Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. To win, the challenger or Nixon must be the first to gain 270 electoral votes of the 538 cast by the state electoral colleges. Players obtain electoral votes by a combination of money and media points, printed on the game board. Nixon, as incumbent, has certain advantages in this game which, at the end, leave him facing the single challenger who has eliminated all the other challengers from the race.

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A board game of national politics. Made by Dynamic Games, copyright 1970, the game includes a high quality folding game board, several stacks of game cards, a stack of “campaign funds” (money), eight plastic tokens (men), instructions pamphlet, original box (complete with inside liner), and a pair of dice.

Here are the specs from Board Game Wiki:

Game Title: Who Can Beat Nixon?

Maker: Dynamic Games

Year of Release: 1971

Number of players: 2-8 Age Range: Adult-Adult

Box Format: Bookshelf

Topic(s): Politics

Type:Has electronic components? No

Designers: Unattributed;

Contents: Gameboard; 8 plastic pawns; two 6-sided dice; play money; deck of Event cards; deck of Media cards; deck of Electoral Vote cards; Instruction booklet

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