Barry Goldwater, the architect of the GOP's turn to the far right, was first elected to the Senate in 1952 by a relatively slim margin. Had 2% been shifted to his opponent, Senate Majority Leader Ernest McFarland, Goldwater would have lost. The next chance he'd have at the Senate is in 1956, when he'd be facing extremely popular Democratic Senator Carl Hayden who in OTL crushed his opponent with 61.4% of the vote. So it's safe to assume that if Goldwater had lost in 1952, he'd have little to no chance of winning a national platform in the future and his political career would probably sputter out sometime in the 1950's. This could mean that in 1964, the New Right wouldn't be able to coalesce around a figure powerful enough to take over the GOP and the moderates remain in charge at least for the next few decades. How would US history be different without Senator Goldwater?