Governor Old School and Senator Goldwater stun the political world by dispatching all the front runners in the race and a battle between two centrist ensure. Goldwater attacks Governor Old School for opposing traditional republican foreign policy while Old School goes on the offense attacking Goldwater healthcare plan by calling it more liberal then obamacare. With the business establishment putting their support behind the Governor while the Senator gets support of the foreign policy establishment.
With Old School winning Iowa and New Hampshire the nomiantion was expected to be his but Goldwater makes a comeback winning SC and tying Old School in Nevada. On Super Tuesday Old School dominated the more business establishment friendly northern primaries , but was decimated in every southern state not named texas. Pundits were wondering if this race was a repeat of the 2008 democratic primary where Goldwater taking the place of Obama dominated the smaller states, while Old School taking place of Hillary dominated the more larger industrial states.
The Polls began to look bad for moderate hero as goldwater was surged in midwestern states such as Michigan. In the debate though Old school took the momentum back when he challenged Goldwater on his previous support of universal healthcare and promised to build infrastructure in this country before any countries. This proclamation allowed Old School to sweep the entire midwest, and even win states like flordia. After Super Tuesday 2 to Super Tuesday 3 Goldwater once again one every state by massive landslides except the big ones such as Wisconsin and New York.
On Super Tuesday 3 Old School was able to sweep New England due to his ties to both the big and small business community which was very prominent there. Goldwater after the losses instead of giving a concession speech slammed Old School saying he opposed Bush throughout his administration and claimed he would not be able to deal with foreign policy issues well. Old School unable to respond to hit hurt him badly as Goldwater won massively in all the states leading up to the final primaries except Old school home state of Oregon.
After the final debate which saw Goldwater attacking Old School for being to inbed with the current system while Old School attacked him for wanting a return to W Bush era which decimated our party.
With California going for Goldwater , the news media declared that they can project that the republican convention will be contested
