Word: goldwaterism
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The biggest wedge Senator Smith has in the primary is purely strategic. Goldwater cannot attack her with anti-Rockefeller vehemence, since she stands so close to his own camp. Furthermore he has been fending off Rockefeller's challenges throughout the campaign by concentrating largely on President Johnson. Suddenly altering tactics...
This, then, is precisely the bind which seems likely to strangle the Arizona Senator's Presidential hopes. Already he has begun to suggest that the New Hampshire contest isn't very important, and that the primary which counts will be California's. But Goldwater needs victories everywhere to get the...
But Senator Smith's candidacy and Goldwater's resultant misfortune were, it would seems, avoidable. First, he didn't have to play into Senator Smith's hands by bellowing his most distasteful positions up and down New Hampshire. This tactic gave Margaret Chase Smith a chance not only for the...
Another factor working actively against Goldwater is that he has turned out to be a moody and mediocre campaigner. He has shown little sense of timing in presenting political issues, little feeling for what crowds are important, and a mercurial humor that varies from day to day. As one commentator...
Rockefeller, in contrast is a superb campaigner who has met the issue of his divorce with more finesse and dignity than most politicians could muster. It is still his crippling disadvantage, widely regarded as having cost him the nomination. Senator Smith's candidacy, however, seems to give him an outside...