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The drama behind President Kennedy’s 1960 election win: Some people still doubt its outcome
The Constitution Center ^ | 11/08/2013 | Scott Bomboy

Posted on 11/10/2013 11:05:54 AM PST by SeekAndFind

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I have always wondered how the results would have played out had Nixon acted like Al Gore...
1 posted on 11/10/2013 11:05:55 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

Didn’t think there was anyone who did not doubt that outcome.


2 posted on 11/10/2013 11:07:17 AM PST by John W (Viva Cristo Rey!)
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To: SeekAndFind

Kennedy was selected, not elected?


3 posted on 11/10/2013 11:20:53 AM PST by skeeter
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To: SeekAndFind

I was always under the impression that the height of Joe Kennedy’s manipulation was the West Virginia vote.


4 posted on 11/10/2013 11:21:03 AM PST by Cyman (We have to pass it to see what's in it= definition of stool sample)
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To: SeekAndFind

I remember right before the election, Kennedy team sent out an out and out lie saying that Richard Nixon would close General Dynamics if he was elected POTUS. I was only 13 and saw so many kids whose parents working for GD crying.


5 posted on 11/10/2013 11:21:31 AM PST by freekitty (Give me back my conservative vote; then find me a real conservative to vote for)
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To: SeekAndFind
In Illinois, there were rampant rumors that Chicago’s Mayor Richard Daley used his political machine to stuff the ballot box in Cook County. Democrats charged the GOP with similar tactics in southern Illinois. Down in Texas, there were similar claims about the influence of Kennedy’s running mate, Lyndon B. Johnson, over that state’s election.

Voter fraud, ballot stuffing, lying about hope and change. The dems have to resort to these tactics because their emotional appeals and vote buying cannot, alone, win elections.

6 posted on 11/10/2013 11:22:04 AM PST by Former Proud Canadian (Cruz/Palin 2016)
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“Kennedy was selected, not elected?”

Yes, by the Mafia in Chicago. Gianconna thought he had himself a bought and paid for President. He turned out to be wrong once said President turned his A.G. brother loose on organized crime.


7 posted on 11/10/2013 11:24:28 AM PST by FAA
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Bobby Kennedy would have made a better president than Jack.

Did we ever find out why Sirhan Sirhan shot Bobby Kennedy? Maybe that is a book O’Reilly should have looked into.


8 posted on 11/10/2013 11:30:00 AM PST by Eva
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To: SeekAndFind
The other story is that he didn't exactly win a majority of the popular vote either -- not for sure, anyway.

Alabama and Georgia voters had to vote for the electors separately, rather than as part of a slate committed to one candidate.

Different electors pledged to a candidate got different statewide vote totals, making it hard to come up with single figures for Kennedy and Nixon.

Plus, some of the Alabama Democratic electors were pledged to vote for Kennedy and others weren't.

Were those votes for Democrat electors cast for Kennedy or against him? It's not easy to say.

9 posted on 11/10/2013 11:32:56 AM PST by x
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Well, there had to have been some reason for Kennedy to select Johnson as his running mate because they hated each other.


10 posted on 11/10/2013 11:34:48 AM PST by Eva
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RE: Maybe that is a book O’Reilly should have looked into.

Another book entitled : KILLING KENNEDY?


11 posted on 11/10/2013 11:34:58 AM PST by SeekAndFind
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To: Eva

Sirhan killed RFK b/c RFK supported arms sales to Israel. It was an act of arab terrorism.


12 posted on 11/10/2013 11:35:21 AM PST by Lou Budvis
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To: SeekAndFind

It was the fraud that changed and ruined America.


13 posted on 11/10/2013 11:36:40 AM PST by allendale
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How ‘bout, Killing the Other Kennedy?

I really don’t want another O’Reilly book, but I would like to see some analysis of why Sirhan, Sirhan did what he did.

Actually, I am not sure that O’Reilly’s book is the definitive book on the shooting of JFK. That theory about the errant shot by a Secret Service Agent in the car behind Kennedy sounds very possible.


14 posted on 11/10/2013 11:38:31 AM PST by Eva
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Maybe is would be better if we never heard from Bill O again. He words are not worth crap.


15 posted on 11/10/2013 11:39:11 AM PST by bmwcyle (People who do not study history are destine to believe really ignorant statements.)
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Kennedy was selected, not elected?

There was never any doubt about the election, JFK was neither selected or elected, daddy bought and paid for the presidency plain and simple. it was this election that made my parents change from democrat to Republican and now some fifty years later my Mom is still a republican as my Dad was to his dying day.


16 posted on 11/10/2013 11:39:22 AM PST by Mastador1 (I'll take a bad dog over a good politician any day!)
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To: SeekAndFind; null and void

nixon personally killed jfk to win in 68 how much more obvious can it be


17 posted on 11/10/2013 11:39:57 AM PST by bigheadfred
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To: Lou Budvis

I thought that it had to be something like that, but I think that this would be a good time to re-visit the shooting of Bobby Kennedy and the motivation, as well as the treatment of the case.


18 posted on 11/10/2013 11:40:43 AM PST by Eva
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I have a friend whose Grandfather was a bootlegger in Mass. Every year he would get drunk on November 23 to celebrate Kennedy's assignation.

Old Joes bootlegger pals killed one of his sons and a couple of close relatives. I can feel for him.

19 posted on 11/10/2013 11:46:00 AM PST by Little Bill (A)
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To: SeekAndFind
"Drama" is code for Joseph P. Kennedy's criminal activity.
20 posted on 11/10/2013 11:47:32 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum (Who knew that one day professional wrestling would be less fake than professional journalism?)
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