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Like many other conservatives, Rusher resorts to the numbers game to explain away the Goldwater debacle of 1964. To the charge that most of the G.O.P. total consisted of party votes rather than Goldwater votes, Rusher answered, "Given all the pressures to defect, I think the 27 million had an...
Rusher welcomed the new crop of Southern Republicans fertilized by the Goldwater candidacy. "I reject the libel that they're rabid segregtionists," he said. "That's a very artistic smear being cultivated by the Northern liberals."
In fact, they were all re-elected, and many by amazing margins. Governors Romney of Michigan and Chafee of Rhode Island won Republican majorities unprecedented in the recent political histories of their states. In doing so, they ran far ahead of Barry Goldwater: Romney 55% to Goldwater's 33% in...
And yet Percy lost, although Goldwater ran much better (41%) in Illinois than in Michigan or Rhode Island: Percy's 48% of the vote was only 7% higher than Goldwater's, compared to differences of 22% for Romney and 42% for Chafee.
Kerner was not the only beneficiary of such feelings. Throughout the country, voters preferred the incumbent Governor or Senator, regardless of party. Incumbent Republican Governors and Senators ran an average of 17% ahead of Goldwater. At the same time, non-incumbent Republicans running against incumbent Democratic Governors and Senators ran...