You're Not Elected, Charlie Brown is the eighth prime-time animated TV special produced based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz, and the 10th one to air. It originally aired on CBS on October 29, 1972, nine days before the 1972 United States presidential election between Senator George McGovern (D-SD) and incumbent Richard Nixon (R-CA). It was the first new Peanuts special to air since the spring of 1971.