A state-by-state presidential countdown, as reported by TIME correspondents ten days before election.
Alabama (10 electoral votes): Lyndon Johnson's name is not even on the ballot. A cinch for Goldwater.
Alaska (3): The state's economy is based on federal spending, and Alaskans are banking on help from Washington to rebuild after last March's earthquake. Given Goldwater's dim view of big federal spending, a Johnson victory.
Arizona (5): Registered Democrats outnumber Republicans 325,000 to 180,000, and Goldwater will need help from a strong state ticket to carry his own state.
Arkansas (6): The state G.O.P. organization is run by Gubernatorial Candidate Winthrop Rockefeller, who scrupulously avoids mentioning Barry's name in public. There is strong segregationist sentiment, but Johnson is narrowly favored.
California (40): Despite saturation TV exposure and hordes of tireless volunteer workers, polls show that Goldwater is way behind. Democrats have signed up seven new voters for every three newly-registered Republicans, now hold a 3-to-2 lead in total registration. For Lyndon.
Colorado (6): This was solid Goldwater country until the campaign began in earnest. Then a split in the state G.O.P. and Barry's speeches on social security and nuclear control softened it up for Johnson, who now leads.
Connecticut (8): A landslide for Johnson.
Delaware (3): Easily Lyndon's.
District of Columbia (3): With a 50% Negro vote, Johnson is an overwhelming favorite to win when Washington residents cast their first presidential ballot.
Florida (14): Goldwater looked like an easy winner. Then he criticized social security in a state full of retired people, derided the moon race despite heavy U.S. space-spending in Florida. Democratic Senator Spessard Holland, up for reelection, is working hard for Johnson. That, plus a 283,000 Negro registration, up 115,000 from 1960, should give L.B.J. a slim lead.
Georgia (12): The Jenkins case cut hard in Georgia. Still, the state Democratic organization has performed well for Johnson, and Georgia has never failed to go Democratic. Unless too many apathetic voters stay home, Johnson should eke out a win.
Hawaii (4): A tidal wave for L.B.J.
Idako (4): The G.O.P. is split, and a great deal of normally Republican business and newspaper support has come to Johnson, who has a slight edge.
Illinois (26): Goldwater named Illinois as a state he had to have "to win this thing," but his campaign, hurt by his stances on farm supports and nuclear control, has steadily deteriorated, and some observers now place Johnson's margin at more than 500,000, which could spell disaster for Republican Gubernatorial Candidate Charles Percy.
Indiana (13): This is Peggy Goldwater's home state, and it is usually staunchly Republican in presidential elections. But Goldwater, hindered by a sparkless G.O.P. organization and by his own campaign, now seems to be trailing in a tight race.
Iowa (9): Farmers fear Goldwater's farm policy; old folks don't like his views on social security. Johnson is well ahead.
Kansas (7): Another Republican stronghold now leaning to Lyndon.