Actually, we don’t have to go back quite that far, Barack.
(NewsBusters)
Nice try.
Barack Obama says voters face the starkest contrast since the Johnson-Goldwater race in 1964.
ABC News reported, via Lucianne:
President Obama said today that voters in the 2012 election face the starkest contrast in candidates seen since the 1964 race between Lyndon Johnson and Barry Goldwater.
“This election will probably have the biggest contrast that we’ve seen maybe since the Johnson-Goldwater election — maybe before that,” the president said at an off-camera fundraiser shortly before Rick Santorum announced he was suspending his campaign.
Johnson won the 1964 race by 61 percent of the popular vote, making it the largest Democratic landslide since 1820.
The president’s remarks came at the first of three fundraisers in the swing state today. Speaking at a luncheon at the home of Hansel Tookes, former president of Raytheon International, Obama pitched his vision for an America where everyone pays their “fair share.”
“My vision … the Democratic vision, is one that says that free market is the key to economic growth; that we don’t need to build government just for the sake of expanding its reach; but there are certain things we have to do — whether it’s investments in education or basic science and research or caring for the most vulnerable among us and creating an effective safety net — that we have to do, because we can’t do it on our own,” he said.
Earlier today it was reported that gas prices under Barack Obama have doubled and are now worse than during the Carter years.
…Carter not Johnson.