1964 Election Research Paper

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I am attempting to focus on the 1964 election, if JFK is running for re-election, and looking at major events and issue that would shape the election. I am still not sure what direct I want this paper, but does it flow well so far?
A year before the 1964 election JFK and his camp were getting ready for his reelection campaign. They were in the early stages, but they have gathered plenty of information that could to his reelection. The trip to Texas in November 1963 was to get a feeling to how he was received in Texas and the south. Texas would be an important state to be reelected. He met with business men in Fort Worth before heading to Dallas, and he was to meet with more business men in Dallas after a ride through downtown Dallas that resulted in
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In September 1963, 63% of Americans believed that the Senate should ratify the Limited Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. 67% of Democrats and 58% of Republicans supported ratification. Even 52% of Barry Goldwater supporters supported the ratification of the treaty even through Goldwater opposed the treaty. In October 1963, only 25% of people believed the threat of war with the USSR was the most serious problem facing the U.S. 55% supported more trade with the USSR and 33% opposed it. 60% approved the selling of surplus American wheat to the USSR. There is trust in JFK even after the Bay of Pigs and Cuban Missile Crisis earlier. Some of that trust came from events before the Cuban Missile Crisis in October of 1962, in April of that same year Kennedy “forced the steel companies to rescind a price increase that he viewed as inflationary, and his use of the federal marshals to insure the court-ordered enrollment of James Meredith… at the University of Mississippi in late September” of 1962 as well. Those two actions and his leadership during the Cuban missile crisis showed the public his courage and leadership skills bolstering his, and his party’s

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