Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - George McGovern, dan siyasa na Jam'iyyar Democrat daga Dakota ta Kudu, an fara zabarsa a majalisar wakilai ta Amurka don wakiltar gundumar majalisa ta 1 ta Dakota ta Kudu a shekarar 1956. An sake zabarsa a shekarar 1958, kafin ya yi nasara a zaben Majalisar Dattawa ta Amurka a shekarar 1960 a kan dan Republican Karl Earl Mundt. Bayan ya yi aiki a cikin gwamnatin John F. Kennedy a matsayin darektan shirin Abinci don Zaman Lafiya, McGovern ya sake tsayawa takara a majalisar dattijai kuma ya yi nasara a kan Sanata Joseph H. Bottum. A shekarar 1968, McGovern ya yi kokarin neman takarar shugabancin jam'iyyar Democrat a taron kasa na jam'iyyar Democrat
kuma an sake zabarsa a majalisar dattijai a kan tsohon Gwamnan Dakota ta Kudu Archie M. Gubbrud. A shekara ta 1972, McGovern ya yi nasara a yakin neman zaben shugaban kasa na jam'iyyar Democrat, amma ya rasa zaben a cikin gagarumar nasara ga Shugaba Richard Nixon. An sake zabar McGovern a majalisar dattijai a 1974 a kan tsohon soja na Vietnam Leo K. Thorsness, amma ya rasa sake zaben a 1980 zuwa wakilin Amurka James Abdnor. McGovern ya yi nasara na karshe ga shugaban kasa a zaben shugaban kasa na 1984 na Amurka.