How Barry Goldwaters policies led to populist support of the Republican ticket in the 1980 election.
Uploaded by CaseyP on Feb 19, 2019
Barry Goldwater’s Policies
One of the most attention-grabbing questions about an election is not related to which candidate or party won but why the voters voted the way they did or what the repercussions of the outcomes are. Nonetheless, finding the right answer to these questions is not always an easy undertaking for focusing only on the campaign incidents and events is not adequate. It is vital for one to put much emphasis on trying to determine the electorate’s behavior leading to the election to entirely have an undertaking of the election outcomes. It is defined by first analyzing the sources of individual voting patterns, and this is associated with the various policies that a party or candidates will lay before the electorate. In the USA, the Democrats and Republicans have each had their fair share of winning the presidency, and this is determined by various policies the party members formulate. Thus, the paper seeks to explore how Barry Goldwater’s policies played a vital role towards the populist winning of a Republican Presidential candidate during the 1980 election.
Barry Goldwater served as the United States Senator for Arizona for five terms before he decided to have a shot at the nation’s top seat; the presidency in 1964. During his tenure as senator, Goldwater was known for being more leaned towards the conservative movement that was against the Republican Party’s agenda at the time. Even though he did not have a chance to win an election as the president, the policies he widely advocated for played a vital role in marshaling a new wave of young conservatives who voted for President Reagan, the winner of the 1980 general election.
President Lyndon Baines Johnson and Nixon played a considerable role in ballooning the federal budget as they financed wars and various public welfare programs. Johnson increased the federal budget by billions of dollars, and this was double the amount that President Kennedy had added . According to Johnson, he wanted to build a Great Society and thus brought the need for a substantial federal budget that was affecting the entire nation. In the case of Nixon, his policies nearly destroyed the USA economy. He introduced harmful wage-price controls with the aim of restoring the economy towards a positive growth, but they were unsuccessful. He also played a vital role in the ending of the USA gold standard, and this allowed the USA to print money...