The rest identified themselves simply as Republican Party loyalists. Twenty-seven million Americans marked their ballots for Goldwater, but a subsequent poll indicated that only six million of those voters were actually pro-Goldwater. Lyndon Baines Johnson won sixty-one per cent of the popular vote in 1964-still a record. That fall, Goldwater was on the wrong end of the most overwhelming victory in the history of American Presidential elections. Neither quality is especially conducive to a successful career in American politics. Goldwater was uncommonly quick on the trigger, and, when he shot, he shot straight. One of them was selling, from the back of a truck, a soft drink he had concocted called Gold Water-"The Right Drink for the Conservative Taste." The candidate was invited to take a sip. An excited band of supporters was on hand to greet him. In the spring of 1964, Barry Goldwater, rolling through the primaries en route to the Republican Presidential nomination, paid a visit to the state of Georgia, where some cracks appeared to be developing in a block of delegates his campaign had thought was locked up.
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