Reply #19: Civil Rights, maybe [View All]

[PAMod]

And he would have certainly been re-elected, in my opinion.

If you analyze the landscape state by state, it's hard to imagine a scenario where JFK loses the election to Goldwater, though had Rockefeller been the Repub nominee you can make a case.

I don't think Vietnam was a big story yet - and most of America was still following the "domino-effect" theory regarding the spread of communism. Besides that, Kennedy was very ambivalent about our role in the effort in Vietnam. America's "history" would have been different had he lived.

I read somewhere were JFK & Goldwater were on friendly terms and talked once about campaigning in tandem around the country.