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Trump gears up for Sin City stand-off

Edit BBC News 19 Oct 2016
Las Vegas was the home of "fear and loathing", Hunter S Thompson wrote more than 40 years ago in the novel that he described as a savage journey to the heart of the American dream ... Stand-off ... And the frustration on Mrs Clinton's side is that the dragon that she claims is Mr Trump - certainly the most divisive candidate the Republicans have nominated since Goldwater in '64, and without his beguiling straightforwardness - is not slain ... ....

Texas Attorney General Intervenes in TPPF & Goldwater Institute Lawsuit to Halt Taxpayer-Funded Union Employees Agreement (Texas Public Policy Foundation)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
al., a lawsuit filed by the Texas Public Policy Foundation (TPPF) and Goldwater Institute challenging the City's labor agreement with Austin Firefighters Association, Local 975 ... 'The Attorney General is charged with ensuring that state and local laws are constitutional,' said Jonathan Riches, Director of National Litigation and General Counsel for the Goldwater Institute....

With his whine about vote rigging, Donald Trump is challenging the foundation of his country’s democracy

Edit The Independent 18 Oct 2016
not Barry Goldwater, George McGovern or Walter Mondale, who all must have known well before election day they were heading for trouncings even more severe than the one Trump seems likely to suffer on November 8 ... ....

Chris Wallace Has Spent His Entire Life Preparing For Final Presidential Debate

Edit The Wrap 18 Oct 2016
So you could say Wallace has been preparing for Donald Trump his whole life ... Also Read. Bill O'Reilly Offers Donald Trump Debate Advice. 'Stop Whining' (Video). He was only 16 when he worked as a gofer for Walter Cronkite at the 1964 Republican National Convention where nominee Barry Goldwater famously intoned, “Extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice [and] moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!” ... Also Read....

Trump doesn’t hate all media – he just has terrible taste

Edit Albuquerque Journal 18 Oct 2016
“Look, of course she was jacked up on something. I assume some kind of methamphetamine.”. It sounds like a perfect circle of disinformation ... Let’s be clear ... (It was all done with actors, Jones claims.) ... “InfoWars is poisonous, and its journalistic value is negative,” said Rick Perlstein, a historian who has chronicled the modern conservative movement in books about Barry Goldwater and Richard Nixon ... Kennedy ... ....

The Atlantic Politics & Policy Daily: Roses Are Red, Violets Are Blue—Arizona, What Color Are You?

Edit The Atlantic 18 Oct 2016
Today in 5 Lines. Melania Trump said her husband was “egged on” by Billy Bush in the leaked 2005 video clip in which the Republican nominee is heard making lewd comments about women ... Today on The Atlantic. The Public Weighs In ... What gives? (Vann R. Newkirk II). The Voter Fraud Myth ... Graham) ... Donald Trump’s campaign is “accelerating a process that began half a century ago” with Barry Goldwater’s racially divisive presidential bid in 1964....

Conservatism Never Fails

Edit Slate 18 Oct 2016
Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus, and continued with Nixonland (2008) and The Invisible Bridge ... As you know from my Goldwater book, everyone was declaring the death of the Republican Party unless they purged the conservatives, but they really didn’t and they got back all their gains in 1966, because this new issue of housing and the backlash against riots and the militancy of the civil rights movement ... ....

The relatively few African Americans in the Republican Party represent a range of political thinking, Stanford research shows (Stanford University)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
(Source. Stanford University). Despite being a relatively rare breed, African-American Republicans are diverse in their political thinking and reasons for being part of the GOP, according to a Stanford sociologist ... L.A ... Many historians identify the Barry Goldwater candidacy in 1964 and deployment of what became known as the 'Southern Strategy' as signature moments where the Republican Party lost the support of African-American voters....

Mutual fund pioneer says his Trump endorsement is about one thing

Edit Yahoo Daily News 18 Oct 2016
Multimillionaire financier Rex Sinquefield, a pioneer in index fund investing, says there’s one reason to vote for Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump—his tax policy. “What Trump is proposing is the right thing. a massive reduction in taxes ... September 19, 2016 ... He first got interested in politics back in high school, reading Bill Buckley’s “Up From Liberalism” and Barry Goldwater’s “Conscience of a Conservative.”Read More ... — ... ....

U.S. Election Notebook #7: Glass ceilings & backlash (Athabasca University)

Edit Public Technologies 18 Oct 2016
(Source. Athabasca University). President-elect Obama with Nancy Killefer, the new Chief Performance Officer, for his administration. The news conference held at the transition office in Washington, D.C. on Jan. 7, 2009. In the seventh of the U.S ... presidential candidates. In crisis ... Merchandising ... why Trump's extreme, right-wing politics have not led his campaign to tank the way Barry Goldwater's extreme, right-wing campaign tanked in 1964....

Web-only letters to the editor, Oct. 17, 2016

Edit The Columbus Dispatch 18 Oct 2016
Never  since the time of Goldwater have we had such a clear choice on the direction we want our country to go.  Trump wants to bring down the high taxes  and regulations that have caused so many businesses to leave the country.  On the other hand, Hillary increase taxes and regulations and cause more businesses and jobs  ......

Trump and Clinton: How they got here

Edit CNN 18 Oct 2016
(CNN)Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton will meet in Las Vegas for a third and final debate Wednesday, less than three weeks before Election Day. Take a look at the paths that led them to this point. Donald. Trump. Hillary. Clinton. 1946. Born June 14, 1946 in Queens, New York. 1947. Born October 26, 1947 in Chicago, Illinois. 1964 ... While in high school, works on the presidential campaign of Republican candidate Barry Goldwater. 1965 ... 1968 ... 1969 ... ....

It Lost Black Voters. Now It’s Losing Latinos. What’s Left Is a Broken, White GOP.

Edit Slate 17 Oct 2016
Barry Goldwater rose to become the voice for ideological conservatism, black Republicans warned that his ideology would create an irreparable breach between the GOP and its black supporters. “Any Negro who helps the cause of Goldwater, should be declared anything but a Negro, because they will be a traitor to the Negro people,” wrote a party member named Jackson R ... There was no mystery to black hostility for Goldwater....
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