[BIOCHEMKY]

I know Kennedy (D) ran against Nixon (R) in the 1960 Presidential election. I was reminding people that it is well understood that Kennedy Sr. (Joseph P. Kennedy) strong-armed support for his son, Jack, at the Democratic convention and this stole the Democratic nomination from the much more senior and experienced career politician, Johnson. Then, the senior Kennedy proceeded to steal crutial votes with mayor Dailey’s machine in Chicago on the night of the national election. This is likely to have added to Johnson’s chagrin.

[Enchante]

"Kennedy took the election with a very narrow margin over Johnson"

I think it is this phrase from the original post that mixed things up --- in those days the nomination was all decided at the party convention. Yes, Johnson surely expected to thrash Kennedy at the convention but it didn't happen that way at all --- Johnson was not able to expand his base support much at all and lost 2-1 in the delegate tally (806 to 409) .... the convention wasn't close at all.

Chicago and the actual election was a very different story, of course, and it is hard to doubt that the Daly machine created large numbers of fictitious votes for the Democrats, per the usual practice.

[cajungirl]

I doubt that Johnson was chagrined the nite of the general election,,he was veep nominee.