Barry Goldwater

counting for a missile launch. The little girl then looks up at the sky and the screen zooms to her eye, when the counting reaches zero the eye is replaced with a nuclear bomb going off and Johnson's voice stating these are the stakes for letting Barry Goldwater win the election. Fear is a tool of manipulation that is especially effective in persuading voters for a campaign. Johnson uses fear to win the election by using…

Reagan was serving as Chairman for the Goldwater campaign in California. At the time many thought of Goldwater as to extreme and a right wing radical. Reagan was given the opportunity to deliver a message of his own composition in order to explain the conservative views of Goldwater. The idea was that the message would become more important than the overwhelming image problems of Goldwater. The speech was delivered at a Los Angeles fundraising event with many of…

followed by Barry Goldwater with 14 percent. In April 1963, Rockefeller led with 43 percent of respondents’ support, followed by 23 percent for Goldwater, who would go on to win the nomination. Rockefeller’s support was strongest in the East and West, weakest in the South. This indicates a liberal support, as even at this point in time, the South had a reputation for being the most conservative geographic region in the country. A month before Rockefeller’s remarriage he led Goldwater by 20…

whether the court feels it can answer a case. This term was used to decide in the case Goldwater v Carr. The term standing determines whether the suit actually has a controversy. The party bringing the suit needs to show injury to a protected interest or right and personal or proprietary damage. The standing must be real and not hypothetical. The standards of justiciability and…

Senator Barry Goldwater. Now this is truly a growing concern, as negative advertisements aren’t known as beneficial yet remain extensively utilized throughout the world. Did you know that Hillary Clinton was at Donald Trump’s wedding? On Fox TV he’d…

More than fifty years ago, one of the most famous political attack ads in U.S. history has not lost the impact that it was set to give. For almost thirty seconds, a small, freckle faced little girl who seems to be a redhead even though the scene is in black and white, counts in an incorrect order as she plucks the petals from a daisy on what seems to be a breezy summer day. When she reaches the number ten, an unsettling voice begins a countdown. The camera suddenly becomes still and the camera…

For decades, African Americans were looked down on from their white allies. But on Sunday, March 8th, 1964, when Senator Hubert Humphrey appeared on the NBC news program Meet the Press to discuss the civil rights bill, many African Americans had hope that something was about to change. Since 1937, several Southern senators had prevented eleven civil rights bills from coming up for a vote in the Senate. But now, the civil rights bill had been approved by the House of Representatives and was sent…

McGirr describes how this movement adapted, it began as a more extreme one that focused on anti communism (demonstrated by the John Birch Society), but after Barry Goldwater's defeat in 1964 shed the extremist label and embraced more single-issue social conservatism that culminated in the 1980 election of Ronald Reagan. She describes how these suburban pioneers created new political and social philosophies anchored…

president. Backfire advertisement’s purpose is to self-incriminate the candidate by using their own words or image against them. The “Merely another Weapon” ad used against Barry Goldwater in 1964 uses this type of advertising. The ad starts off with an explosion of a nuclear bomb and the narrator calls back to how Goldwater blew off nuclear weapons as “merely another weapon”. The theme of this ad was extreme positions on nuclear weapons. The point of this ad was to display Goldberg’s casual…

nuclear explosion mushroom cloud along with the sound of the explosion. This is a cloud that is widely known to pretty much mean negative things, and functions as a scare tactic for people who could be leaning away from Johnson to realize a vote for Goldwater is a vote for nuclear war. In the 1960’s, the fear of Nuclear war was real, in this quote from The History Learning site, it outlines a fear that was felt by Americans at the time of this election, “During the 1960’s the theory of MAD…