Have you noticed all the comparisons on TV and in print between the Barry Goldwater campaign of 1964 and the Donald Trump campaign of 2016? It’s true both Goldwater was, and Trump is, the Republican nominee for president. And both could be fairly termed insurgent winners and highly controversial candidates. Yet the similarities are being dramatically overplayed. No doubt any regular reader of the Crystal Ball can cite a dozen ways these two politicians are temperamentally and substantively far removed. For the moment, we’ll focus on just four: CONT.
Larry J. Sabato, Sabato’s Crystal Ball