Describe a Goldwater 1964/Obama 2008 voter

[Blow by blow, the passion dies]

Someone in the ancestrally Republican Chicago suburbs who was in their twenties at the time and shifted Democratic during the 1990s or 2000s.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Probably a decent number in Indiana.

[wnwnwn]

A fiscally conservative, socially libertarian leaning person from San Diego County in the mid 1960s, who leaved the Republican Party as he/she was alineated by the War on Drugs and the Religious Right. Also, that person changed his/her views on Social security as he/she got older.

[Mr. Smith]

Hillary Clinton...in a sense.

Robert Byrd is also possible too.

[TDAS04]

Hillary Clinton...in a sense.

Robert Byrd is also possible too.

Doubt it.

[Mr. Matt]

If he had lived, maybe Goldwater himself? Don't know how friendly he was with McCain but surely would not like Palin.

[TransfemmeGoreVidal]

Probably some of Goldwater's relatives, also John Dean. Maybe a handful of Middle American Radical types.

[TDAS04]

Chris Matthews would have been, but he was under 21 in 1964 (pre-26th Amendment).

[Schiff for Senate]

If he had lived, maybe Goldwater himself? Don't know how friendly he was with McCain but surely would not like Palin.

I don't think his distaste for Palin would prevent him from voting for McCain - a fellow maverick Republican and his successor for the Arizona senate seat - and it most certainly wouldn't compel him to go as far as to vote for Obama.

Although in its way it would be ironic for Goldwater to vote for an African-American presidential candidate, given his own legacy with African-American voters.