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Dates: during 1960-1960
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...gave Nixon 223 of the 269 needed to win. Then Kennedy's lead in Minnesota (II) dropped on recheck to a shaky 22,011 (out of 1,537,844 votes cast). Since Kennedy's margins in such heavy-electoral-vote states as Illinois (27) and New Jersey (16) were less than 1%, Republicans were tantalized by the thought that a series of hard-nosed recounts could give Nixon the magic 269 after...
Labor: Oregon's Congresswoman Edith Green; New York's Mayor Robert Wagner; New Jersey Congressman Frank Thompson; United Steelworkers' Counsel Arthur Goldberg...
...electoral votes; Nixon, with razor-close Alaska, had 191; the popular-vote spread was a hairline 279,000. It was so close that Republican National Chairman Thruston Morton called for a recount of the votes in Kennedy-edged Texas, Illinois, Delaware, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Mexico, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and South Carolina. Some Republicans even dared hope that the recounts might still add up to a Nixon victory (but Nixon disassociated himself from the whole project...
Coattails. President Eisenhower's lastditch campaigning was credited with helping pull Ohio into the G.O.P. column, and he nearly turned the trick in New Jersey. Kennedy grabbed a few coattails. running behind Senator Paul Douglas and Gubernatorial Candidate Otto Kerner in Illinois, and in many other states trailed local Democratic front runners...
...case can be made that Richard Nixon will have to be reckoned with as a candidate in 1964. In 1960 Nixon came within a handful of votes of carrying California, Illinois, New Jersey, Minnesota, and, with them, the election. He went down to defeat as the second best Republican vote getter in history, winning 33.3 million votes v. Ike's 35.6 million in 1956. He ran well ahead of the other G.O.P. candidates, pulled several lesser Republicans into Congress on his shirttails. Said New York Congressman William Miller, chairman of the Republican Congressional Campaign Committee...