Richard Nixon's overwhelming victory in the 1972 presidential election most supports which of the following conclusions?
A. The Vietnam War had gradually regained support from most voters in the 1970s despite the antiwar protests of the 1960s.
B. The "silent majority " of women and minority voters who had previously been denied a political voice voted in large numbers in the 1970s.
C. American voters in the 1970s supported expanding the role of the federal government to protect consumers and workers .
D. Huge numbers of Americans had rejected the political liberalism that had characterized the 1960s by the start of the 1970s .