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Party Eras in American History II
  • American Political Parties
  • Prof. Wolbrecht
  • 25 March 2009

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1952 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1956 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1960 John F. Kennedy (D) v. Richard M. Nixon (R)
  • GOP nomination
  • Democratic nomination
  • General election
  • JFK confronts religious issue
  • "I am not the Catholic candidate for President. I
    am the Democratic Party's candidate for President
    who also happens to be a Catholic. I do not speak
    for my Church on public mattersand the Church
    does not speak for me." -- Greater Houston
    Ministerial Association, 9/1960
  • 1960 JFK ad (6)

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1960 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1964 Lyndon B. Johnson (D) v. Barry Goldwater
(R)
  • GOP nomination
  • Goldwater defeats moderates (Lodge, Scranton,
    Rockefeller)
  • Phyllis Schlafly, A Choice, Not An Echo (1964)
  • Stop Goldwater movement claims hes too extreme
    for general election
  • Goldwater booed at convention Goldwater taunts
  • I would remind you that extremism in the defense
    of liberty is no vice. And let me remind you
    also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is
    no virtue. (at 100)

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1964 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1968 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1972 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1976 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1980 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1984 results landslide
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1988 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1992 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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1996 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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2000 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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2004 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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2008 results
Source http//www.livingroomcandidate.org/
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