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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2009
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Barry Goldwater stories: 17 news summaries
Analysis

 Palin Will Be the 2012 Nominee 

Winner-take-all primaries favor unpopular Palin

Nov 16, 09 11:39 AM CST
(Newser) - She may be hugely polarizing, but Sarah Palin’s the odds-on favorite to win the GOP presidential nomination in 2012, thanks to the party’s winner-take-all primary system. The party establishment may not want Palin, but if she can maintain, say, 35% support in a multi-candidate field, she could win... More »

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presidential primaries • Barry Goldwater • Republican presidential primaries • South Carolina primary • convention delegates • Sarah Palin

OPINION

In 2012, GOP Goes With Heart (Palin) Over Head (Romney)

Who knows, maybe her star power will make her the next Reagan

Oct 20, 09 7:13 PM CDT
(Newser) - No matter what kind of gains Republicans make in the midterm elections next year, it’s going to be tough to unseat President Obama—and that’s why the GOP is going to choose Sarah Palin, its heart’s preferred candidate, over Mitt Romney, its head’s favorite. Or as... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Barry Goldwater • Richard Nixon • Ronald Reagan • Republican Party • Bob Dole • Sarah Palin • incumbents • Election 2012 • President Obama • midterm elections • presidential nominee

Robinson, Now
a 'GOP Hero,' Hated GOP

RNC touts baseball legend who compared party to Nazis

Oct 14, 09 9:40 AM CDT
(Newser) - Whoops. The RNC’s new “GOP Heroes” website devotes a page to baseball legend Jackie Robinson, declaring him a “great Republican” who campaigned for Richard Nixon and Nelson Rockefeller. There’s just one problem: Robinson was a registered independent who professed he’d “never identified with one... More »

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race • Jackie Robinson • Barry Goldwater • Republican Party • Republican National Committee • Nelson Rockefeller

ANALYSIS

 Kennedy's 
 Senate Class 
 Full of Lions 

Giants abound in 88th Senate

Aug 27, 09 8:05 AM CDT
(Newser) - It’s no wonder Ted Kennedy became a lion of the Senate, writes Tom Schaller of FiveThirtyEight.com: he learned from the best. Kennedy began his first full term with the 88th Congress in 1963, and the list of senators sworn in alongside him contains “a safari’s worth... More »

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Senate • Ted Kennedy • Barry Goldwater • George McGovern • Hubert Humphrey • Strom Thurmond • Robert Byrd • Fulbright

ANALYSIS

As Calif. Righty Bastion, Orange County Cedes
to Rural Placer

But it's a place to hide from, not breed, change

Jun 16, 09 3:20 PM CDT
(Newser) - Placer County, Calif.—stretching from Sacramento east to Lake Tahoe—is this generation’s Orange County, and that bodes ill for conservatives, Tom Schaller writes on FiveThirtyEight.com. Placer’s demographics and voting record are similar to the Orange County of the 1960s, which birthed the modern conservative movement.... More »

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California • Sacramento • Barry Goldwater • Orange County • demographics • Lake Tahoe • conservative movement • Placer County

OPINION

RNC Recycles LBJ 'Daisy'
Ad to Bash Obama on Gitmo

Classic incendiary spot doesn't age well in Michael Steele's hands

May 22, 09 10:39 AM CDT
(Newser) - RNC chairman Michael Steele has rolled out an ad remixing an LBJ classic on nuclear war to warn about the danger of closing Guantanamo. The infamous 1964 spot used images of a little girl plucking petals off a daisy juxtaposed with a nuclear explosion to illustrate the risk of Armageddon.... More »

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RNC • Lyndon Johnson • Barry Goldwater • Guantanamo Bay • Guantanamo prisoners • Daisy Ad • Obama administration • President Obama • Michael Steele

OPINION

Abortion 'Purity Test' Is New to Republicans

Not even 'conservative issue' for older generation: Goodman

May 15, 09 1:45 PM CDT
(Newser) - Abortion has become “the purity test for remaining in the GOP’s inner circle,” writes Ellen Goodman in the Boston Globe: The Republican Party is shedding and shunning abortion-rights supporters it once called its own. But it wasn’t always that way—even “Mr. Conservative” Barry Goldwater... More »

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abortion • abortion rights • Arlen Specter • Barry Goldwater • pro life • pro choice • Colin Powell • conservatism • conservatives • Republicans

OPINION

 What the 
 GOP Needs Is 
 a John Wayne 

Community, not freedom, is the true Western virtue: Brooks

May 5, 09 9:28 AM CDT
(Newser) - Republicans have admired Westerns for decades, continually flocking to leaders—Goldwater, Reagan, Bush, Palin—who embody the John Wayne ideal of individualism and bravery. But as David Brooks writes, Westerns aren't really about lone heroes, but "civic order": how newcomers build communities in inhospitable regions. For the New ... More »

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GOP • Barry Goldwater • Ronald Reagan • Republican Party • David Brooks • conservatism • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin • community

OPINION

Newt Is the Conservative
Al Sharpton

He'll never run for
office again; he just wants attention

Mar 4, 09 8:00 AM CST
(Newser) - Trendy political predictions to the contrary, Newt's not "back," and he most certainly isn't going to run for president, writes Jason Zengerle in the New Republic. The former House speaker has maintained political longevity by dangling flirty intimations before story-hunting reporters. Given how he loves to talk, Gingrich... More »

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Newt Gingrich • Al Sharpton • Barry Goldwater • Richard Nixon • conservatives

ANALYSIS

 White Obama Support 
 Defies Doubters 

 

44% of white voters swing to Obama

Nov 3, 08 8:04 AM CST
(Newser) - A minority of white voters—44%—are now supporting Barack Obama, but he trails by less than previous Democratic presidential candidates, reports the New York Times, including Bill Clinton. Both the impact of racial attitudes and the proportion of white voters in the electorate have diminished, analysts say. In a... More »

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Barack Obama • abortion • race • Al Gore • gun control • Lyndon Johnson • John F. Kennedy • religion • Bill Clinton • Barry Goldwater • Herbert Hoover • white voters • the race card • Hispanics • Michael Beschloss

OPINION

 Voters Flee GOP 
 Fury Like It's 1964 

Angry base has handed election to Obama, writes Cohen

Oct 21, 08 10:10 AM CDT
(Newser) - Eight years ago George W. Bush made it to the White House as a "compassionate conservative," with plans to reform education and build a multiracial coalition. In 2008, writes Richard Cohen, that vision of the GOP is dead—replaced by "a mean, grumpy, exclusive, narrow-minded and... More »

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John McCain • Barry Goldwater • Republican Party • Colin Powell • compassionate conservatism • conservatism • George W. Bush • Sarah Palin

McCain Dares Obama to
10 Informal  Debates

Face-to-face showdowns could echo Lincoln-Douglas, Obama adviser suggests

Jun 4, 08 3:00 PM CDT
(Newser) - John McCain challenged Barack Obama today to fight mano a mano in a series of 10 intimate town-hall meetings between now and the Democratic primary in late August. The Republican's invitation, delivered in a speech and said to be modeled on a proposed Kennedy-Goldwater series, would be “free from... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • John F. Kennedy • Barry Goldwater • Abraham Lincoln • debates • town hall meeting • Stephen Douglas

OPINION

 Goldwater Vs. JFK Echoes in '08 

Obama vs. McCain recalls race that never happened in '64

May 21, 08 12:19 PM CDT
(Newser) - The coming Obama/McCain matchup is an echo of another presidential bout, David Talbot writes for Salon—one that never happened between JFK and Barry Goldwater in 1964. Then as now, a young idealist takes on a seasoned ex-soldier over negotiation with hostile governments, to debate a fundamental question of whether... More »

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Barack Obama • John McCain • John F. Kennedy • Barry Goldwater • assassination • Obama 2008 • McCain 2008 • presidential election • appeasement

Clinton Rolls Out 'Nuclear Option' TV Spot

'Red phone'-style ad asks: Who will keep your children safe?

Feb 29, 08 3:25 PM CST
(Newser) - Hillary Clinton today debuted an ad hinting at dire consequences of electing a commander in chief who isn’t “tested," ABC News reports. "It's 3am and your children are asleep," a voice says over images of sleeping infants. "There's a phone in the White House,... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Lyndon Johnson • children • Barry Goldwater • political advertising • Gary Hart • Texas primary • Ohio primary • campaign commercials • red phone ad • Walter Mondale • Roy Spence • daisy ad

OPINION

Who Will Show Clinton the Door?

Novak studies an increasingly touchy question

Feb 25, 08 1:30 PM CST
(Newser) - Does any Democrat have the gravitas to show Hillary Clinton the exit? Syndicated columnist Robert Novak of the Chicago Sun-Times speculates about the campaign's denouement, saying the ex-first lady's continued presence is hurting Barack Obama’s chances against John McCain in the general election. "Clinton's burden is not only... More »

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Barack Obama • Hillary Clinton • Barry Goldwater • Richard Nixon

Paul Challenges GOP Agenda on Campaign Trail

"Lone wolf''s" campaign gains traction with the young and wired

Jul 22, 07 8:49 AM CDT
(Newser) - Most Americans know him—if at all— as the firebrand Texas congressman who’s always pushed to the end of the line during debates. Ron Paul flounders at the bottom of national polls, but he's is the most “friended” Republican on myspace.com. And he's the lone GOP presidential... More »

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Mitt Romney • John McCain • Rudy Giuliani • Dick Cheney • Texas • presidential campaign • Paul Wolfowitz • New Hampshire • Barry Goldwater • Ronald Reagan • Ron Paul • Richard Perle • libertarian • FREE • Libertarian Party • Republican presidential primaries • Iraq war • George W. Bush

GOP Weighs Hollywood Ending for Cheney

Sally Quinn: Thompson offers perfect solution

Jun 26, 07 9:35 AM CDT
(Newser) - GOP decision-makers are so fed up with Dick Cheney that they've been searching for a replacement, without much success—until recently. In an op-ed in today's Washington Post, inveterate insider Sally Quinn lays out an ingenious plan: Use heart surgery scheduled for this summer as an excuse to oust the... More »

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Dick Cheney • Fred Thompson • Sally Quinn • John Warner • Barry Goldwater • Richard Nixon • Election 2008 • George W. Bush

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