1964 election, if held today

[Antonio the Sixth]

Goldwater wins in an epic landslide, a proof of how much America has regressed since then.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Goldwater wins in an epic landslide, a proof of how much America has regressed since then.

lol. LBJ would still win all the Gore/Kerry states. Obama did run on many of LBJ's polciies after all, and most Americans like their Medicare and Medicaid, which Goldwater opposed.

Obama's policies are to the right of Nixon's. They don't even come close to LBJ's.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Goldwater wins in an epic landslide, a proof of how much America has regressed since then.

lol. LBJ would still win all the Gore/Kerry states. Obama did run on many of LBJ's polciies after all, and most Americans like their Medicare and Medicaid, which Goldwater opposed.

Obama's policies are to the right of Nixon's. They don't even come close to LBJ's.

No you're wrong.

How so ? Obama's health care plan is way less ambitious and more market friendly than Nixon's.

[Antonio the Sixth]

Do remember that Richard Nixon had a Congress which was controlled by the Democrats, who he pretty much let do whatever they wanted on domestic issues, as well as he didn't really give a shit about domestic policy because he wanted to be a foreign policy President. He also supported transferring authority of Great Society programs to the states.

Any President interested in implementing a right-wing agenda, and who was combative enough to, would have managed to passs at least a few thing, basing him upon a Republican-Southern democrat coalition. The congresses of the years 1950-1990 were not really left-wing congresses, at least not all of them. IMO, any Congresss of these years where republicans had more than 40% of the seats was a right-wing congress.