1960 Presidential Election

[ElectionsGuy]

1789: 62.1% Anti-Federalist; George Washington
1796: 63.0% Thomas Jefferson
1800: 75.0% Thomas Jefferson
1804: 85.7% Thomas Jefferson
1808: 76.9% James Madison
1812: 50.0% James Madison
1816: 69.2% James Monroe
1820: 60.0% James Monroe
1828: 48.0% John Q. Adams
1832: 51.5% Henry Clay
1840: 42.9% Martin Van Buren
1844: 50.0% James Birney
1848: 83.3% Martin Van Buren
1852: 69.2% John Hale
1856: 74.2% John Fremont
1860: 71.7% Abraham Lincoln
1864: 71.4% Abraham Lincoln
1868: 77.1% Ulysses Grant
1872: 65.4% Ulysses Grant
1880: 44.8% James Garfield
1888: 51.6% Grover Cleveland
1896: 32.5% John Palmer
1904: 51.4% Theodore Roosevelt
1908: 47.4% William Taft
1912: 37.5% William Taft
1920: 41.5% Warren Harding
1924: 52.4% Robert La Follette
1928: 40.0% Al Smith
1936: 45.5% Franklin Roosevelt
1944: 56.8% Franklin Roosevelt
1948: 35.7% Harry Truman
1952: 63.9% Dwight Eisenhower
1956: 67.5% Dwight Eisenhower
1964: 49.2% Lyndon Johnson
1968: 44.4% Hubert Humphrey
1972: 60.5% George McGovern
1976: 50.0% Gerald Ford
1980: 26.2% Ronald Reagan
1992: 33.9% William Clinton
2000: 48.3% Al Gore
2008: 53.8% Barack Obama

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1960

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Farrell Dobbs

[MadmanMotley]

At the time, probably Nixon.

[Negusa Nagast 🚀]

JFK

[SWE]

Farrell Dobbs

[Rockefeller GOP]

At the time, probably Nixon.

This, though I'm not positive with hindsight.

[Goldwater]

Probably Nixon, although I could also see myself voting for JFK.

[SPC]

The only defense I have for my vote is that voting Nixon in 1960 likely prevents both a Kennedy and Johnson presidency and transports Nixon's to a time period in which he can inflict less damage¹. Plus, with any luck, Lee Harvey Oswald's aim would be just as good in this alternate universe.

¹Presumably Nixon would not have had to play nuclear chicken over Cuba to counteract the notion that his political party was weak on defense.

[TDAS04]

Kennedy

[Lambsbread]

I'm a JFK fanboy, so him.

[Lief 🗽]

Nixon is horrible, so obviously JFK.

[courts]

The only defense I have for my vote is that voting Nixon in 1960 likely prevents both a Kennedy and Johnson presidency and transports Nixon's to a time period in which he can inflict less damage¹. Plus, with any luck, Lee Harvey Oswald's aim would be just as good in this alternate universe.

¹Presumably Nixon would not have had to play nuclear chicken over Cuba to counteract the notion that his political party was weak on defense.

it had nothing to do with 'counteracting', the consensus was totally different then. nixon was very much for the bay of pigs invasion, like most. plus theres the matter of laos which he certainly would have invaded. it's a myth that kennedy was some sort of liberal dove but he was much more cautious in that regard than nixon or eisenhower were for that matter. so no, it's highly probable that we got lucky when nixon lost in 1960.

[Wake Me Up When The Hard Border Ends]

Nixon.

[Atlas Has Shrugged]

Nixon now!

[Clarko95 📚💰📈]

Probably Nixon, although I could also see myself voting for JFK.

[Bigby]

I'd be comfortable with a vote for either Nixon or JFK, so I did a coin toss and it landed for Nixon.

[Mechaman]

Ole Jack.

Nixon was that horrible.

[Oswald Acted Alone, You Kook]

I like Kennedy more, but Nixon had yet to turn evil, and it's possible that there wouldn't be any missiles in Cuba if he won.

[Kaine for Senate '18]

JFK

[SNJ1985]

Rutherford L. Decker (Prohibition)

[Rockefeller GOP]

Rutherford L. Decker (Prohibition)

So are you, like, still a Prohibitionist?  Or do you just assume you would have been one fifty years ago?

[SNJ1985]

Rutherford L. Decker (Prohibition)

So are you, like, still a Prohibitionist?  Or do you just assume you would have been one fifty years ago?

Both.

[RogueBeaver]

Nixon now!

[Maistre]

Nixon now!

[Colbert]

Nixon, the best president of the 60 past years!