WI: Barry Goldwater supports Medicare in 1964

What if Barry Goldwater supporter Medicare in 1964? How would this effect the results of the election? How would this effect the votes of the elderly?
 
Medicare lost in the Senate in 1962 by 52 to 48, with the overwhelming majority of Republicans (and 21 Democrats) opposing it. Only five Republicans supported it: Clifford Case (NJ) Jacob Javits (NY), Kenneth Keating (NY), Thomas Kuchel (CA) , and John Sherman Coooper (KY). Even such moderate Republicans as Hugh Scott (PA) and George Aiken (VT) and Leverett Saltonstall (MA) voted against it.

For Goldwater to support it would be totally out of character---siding with the most liberal GOP senators against not only conservatives but middle-of-the-roaders--and would cost him the support of the conservative movement.
 

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