Nym90
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« on: July 20, 2016, 12:04:36 PM » |
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In 1960 it really comes down to how you count the Democratic vote in Alabama. Voters didn't have the seperate options available to vote for Kennedy or Democratic unpledged electors like they did in Mississippi....the Democratic ticket had 6 unpledged electors and 5 Kennedy electors. So should the Democratic votes all be attributed to Kennedy (in which case Kennedy wins the national popular vote) or should only 5/11 of them count for Kennedy (in which case Nixon wins the national popular vote)?
There is no clear answer to this question as it is impossible to divine the intent of those voters regarding whether they intended to vote for Kennedy and/or "unpledged Democratic electors".
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