Well, I was there, and remember it pretty well.
DFN was a marginal group at best, basically Connally giving interviews whenever he could get people to listen to him. A bigger influence on the 1972 campaign was the fact that it was an incredibly ugly primary, that Wallace and Scoop took their voters with them, that Eagleton stabbed him in the back both publicly and privately, that McGovern ran a really terrible campaign, and of course that Nixon cheated.
