ANALYSIS/OPINION_ Public faith in system at risk if legitimate questions about election are not answered

THE WASHINGTON TIMES

Public faith in system at risk if legitimate questions about election are not answered

Nixon fighting 1960 election results might have led to reforms

President-elect John F. Kennedy, left, and Vice President Richard Nixon are shown after their post-campaign conference at Key Biscayne in Miami, Fla., on Nov. 14, 1960. (AP Photo) more >


By David Keene - - Monday, November 9, 2020

ANALYSIS/OPINION:


The turmoil of the last few days must seem, in Yogi Berra’s words, “like deja vu all over again” to Americans familiar with the presidential election of 1960.

John F. Kennedy was elected president that November in one of the closest elections in modern U.S. history. When it was over, his popular vote margin was 113,000 votes or fewer than one-half a vote per precinct more than Vice President Richard Nixon. Only late count returns in Chicago put Kennedy over the top in Illinois and gave him the electoral votes he needed to win.

Nixon spent election night in California with his family and top strategists anxiously awaiting the results from Illinois, where Chicago’s Democratic Mayor Richard J. Daley’s forces were refusing to report the Chicago vote until the rest of the state’s vote was reported. Outside Chicago, Nixon was piling up votes from the smaller cities, towns and rural areas of the state, but everyone knew the key was the Chicago urban vote.

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