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Like John McCain, that other senator and national candidate from Arizona, Goldwater was long a media favorite, something that didn’t stop and possibly even encouraged the rightwing trying out its new tactic — putting the mass media on the defensive by constantly carping about its “liberal” bias.
And like McCain, he was a maverick, but one who entirely reshaped the American political landscape. Goldwater began the revolution that takes the name of his most famous prot