Question

Why did kennedy win the 1960 presidential election?

Answer 1

Kennedy ran on a strong civil rights platform, hoping to offset the expected hostility from Southern Democrats by adding Texan Lyndon B. Johnson to the ticket as his vice president. Though Kennedy and Nixon often have been portrayed as ideological opposites, they both agreed on the necessity of US global leadership in the Cold War. Both men were firmly anti-communist and emphasized the importance of maintaining and strengthening US military supremacy.

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Answer 2

Kennedy won a 303 to 219 Electoral College victory, and isgenerally considered to have wonthe national popular vote by 112,827, a margin of 0.17 percent. ... The 1960 presidential election was the closest electionsince 1916, and this closeness can be explained by a number of factors. - From the article I went too.