Yeah, and then Goldwater found a minor section of the civil rights bill that he did not like and chose to be against the entire bill. The idiot Goldwater voted against civil rights. The Republicans chose Goldwater to be the nominee and the rest is history. LBJ won in a landslide and in 1965 the nation got the Great Society. Girls would be paid to make government babies and the result is America rapidly moving to communist. Goldwater’s stand against civil rights is the doom of the USA.
LBJ would still have won even if Goldwater had supported the CR Bill and curbed his incendiary rhetoric (”Moderation in the pursuit of …”). There was a huge sympathy wave building up the year after the JFK assassination, and the Dems were destined to win it all. Period. Period. Period. (As Biden would say).