1964: Who would you have voted for?

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I would have voted for Goldwater but in a calculating way. Overall, I would agree with him on almost every issue. Johnson's economic great society programs were all wasteful disasters in the long run. Vietnam was terrible. Our economy started taking a dive with Johnson and never really recovered until Reagan (or even post Reagan). I can't imagine the world today without the Voting Rights Act though. In the constitution, every state is guaranteed a "republican" form of government. And in reality, a state does not have a republican form of government if a large and significant portion of the population does not have the right to vote in most elections.
    I could not vote for Johnson though and looking back at the numbers in the house and senate, they would have passed the Voting Rights Act over a Goldwater Veto anyway (if he would have vetoed it, which I am not so sure he would have). Even though I disagree with Goldwater on his issue about the two crucial Civil Rights Acts of 1964 and 1965, I can calculatingly say today that I would have voted for him due to the circumstances on the floor of the Senate and House (not to mention how liberal the supreme court was also).