Bjørn Stærk — White unfurled a map of the United States and...

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White unfurled a map of the United States and explained the grand strategy. States were colored in blue, green, or red, for those that possibly, probably, or almost certainly would go for Goldwater at the 1964 Republican Convention. Bob Taft’s ugly convention defeat at the hands of the Northeastern swing vote in 1952 had been a formative political memory for these men. When White explained that a convention could be won without the Northeast, they understood that what he was describing was a revolution. No one had ever convincingly claimed that a Republican presidential candidate could be nominated without winning New York. He said 637 of the 655 delegates needed to win the nomination were likely already in the bag. Many Republican organizations across the country, he explained, withered from eight slack years under Eisenhower, enervated by the agonizing 1960 Nixon loss, weren’t really organizations at all. If five people showed up for precinct meetings, it took only six conservatives to take the precinct over. Enough precincts and you had a county. Then a congressional district. If you got enough congressional districts, then you had a state. With just the people in this room and a network of loyal friends, they could have the Republican Party, as easy as pushing on an open door.
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