[okie01]

They claim they only ran the daisy ad one day before it was taken off the air due to protests, but it seems like I saw it more than one day.

They did. And you did.

The "Daisy" ad was aired only once...as a paid ad. On September 7, 1964 (NBC Monday Night at the Movies, David & Bathsheba).

A great hue and cry followed and the DNC cancelled any further exposure of the ad.

However, the networks decided that the ad -- and the response to it -- was newsworthy in and of itself. As a consequence, they ran it interminably on news & analysis shows for the next month.

By the end of September, over 95% of America had seen the ad an average of 4.2 times. It is not known, for sure, whether this process had been pre-agreed to by the DNC and the networks -- but nobody would be shocked if it had.

[driftless2]

The media fifty years ago was just as strongly pro-Dem as it is now. That might seem shocking to young conservatives, but libs ran the media and the entertainment industry in those days as well as today. The general public wasn't nearly as accepting of socialist ideas as it is now, and views on social issues were more commonly shared.

But when the prospect of the election of a candidate like Goldwater who would try to shake the politicians out of their love for increasingly, large government, the libs all banded together to destroy him, Goldwater.