Brother Jonathan
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« on: December 09, 2020, 11:54:55 PM » |
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Maybe a Taft style Old Right Republican with a strong isolationist streak who strongly supported Goldwater's domestic policies but was always somewhat concerned by his foreign policy rhetoric. Didn't like Nixon and thought Humphrey would do more to end the war and reduce US commitment abroad, and did not see much difference between them on economic policy so he went with the "lesser of two evils" and voted Humphrey (with the added hope that it would punish the GOP for nominating a candidate like Nixon). So sort of a more pragmatic version of Russell Kirk in some sense, perhaps?
I could also see maybe a regional impact, so maybe it was a voter in one of the Dakotas or Minnesota.
It would be odd, given the focus on Goldwater's foreign policy statements in the campaign, for this voter to have gone for Goldwater in the end, but maybe they just really disliked the New Deal enough to hold their nose/they knew Goldwater wouldn't win so they weren't worried.
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