The first general election (in the USA) that I remember was in 1964. Johnson(D) v. Goldwater(R).
This year is like history repeating itself in many ways: Shit v. Shittier, in retrospect -- Johnson sold the dummies a bill of goods.
Goldwater's running mate: former USAF General Curtis LeMay
That would have made a General Buck Turgidson like character The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
A realtime Dr. Strangelove scenario.
In the end we all got fucked, Vietnam, then Nixon, then the US Dollar devaluations, runaway inflation, stagflation, the Regan recession, NAFTA, then Global ''fee trade'', then 9/11 and new war debt
leading to the Great Recession of 2007 ...The new voters remember this? Well, this is how we got here -- by electing liars and fools 