70 Year Magazine Archive

Political Notes from the Prairies

by James Burnham

Motoring west from New York, the author finds little interest in the Presidential race, considerably more in local contests, not much dissatisfaction with LBJ

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Denver

It doesn’t take long after you leave the Eastern Seaboard to find out that very few citizens, except for professionals and the pre-committed, are much interested in 1964’s Presidential politics. Besides their own family affairs, most people are thinking about sports, recreation, travel—play, in brief—and business. Business is good; there are lots of jobs at good wages, in spite of the unemployment statistics; there is leisure time and spare cash for play; bad public troubles are far away or postponable. So the mood, in general, is cheerful, the outlook optimistic.

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