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In this strange, uneventful, yet fascinating Presidential campaign, it is Senator Barry Goldwater who has roused the strong emotions that probably decide most American elections.
On the one hand, Mr. Goldwater as the apostle of a new “conservatism” evokes a fanatical enthusiasm and a Messianic zeal in the hearts of his followers—convinced as they are that Big Government ana a “soft on Communism” foreign policy are despoiling the land of the free and the home of the brave.
On the other hand, Mr. Goldwater in his mild and unlikelyway arouses a powerful surge of fear in the hearts of many other Americans—fear of war, fear of diminished Income, fear of damaged status, fear of rights denied, fear of the strange and unknown.
Those frightened hearts do, not necessarily throb with lova for President Johnson. The evldenee of most polls and surveys suggest that affection for Mr. Johnson personally does not run deep and that many voters are turning to him in spite of lukewarm or antagonistic feelings.
Nevertheless, at this stage of the campaign, Mr. Johnson seems almost certain of re‐election. For once the emotion of fear strikes a voter, he looks around for something to ease it. And what does he see this year? Lyndon Johnson, full of optimism and reassurance, pledging a safe hand at the wheel and on the trigger, promising the Great Society in the immemorial manner of the successful American politician.
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