re: #288 Decatur Deb

Think he means different votes—Congressional votes for the CRA, etc.

That wouldn’t have been possible without the 1964 blowout, which in turn LBJ could never have won on his own and which JFK probably couldn’t have, either. (If you look at the history of Presidential approval ratings, JFK’s most closely resembles… George W. Bush’s, with a big boost from the Cuban Missile Crisis/ 9/11 and Gulf War that steadily decayed thereafter. He’d have likely won a narrow re-election, but without the sweep of new liberal Congressmen that made the Great Society possible, and he wasn’t really interested in big moves on the civil rights front anyway.)