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Originally Posted by ElKabong
It's called Chicago politics, Al. Alive today, as it was in Daley's era.
Illinois was rigged for JFK, was the difference in the election
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I've been hearing this for fifty two years from Republican and for fifty two years they have been wrong.
First of all, there were two investigations of voter fraud after the 1960 election. One focused on Chicago and the Democrats. One focused on DU Page County and the Republicans. The results of both were inclusive.
But the important thing is that it did not matter.
Kennedy received 303 electoral votes.
Nixon received 219 electoral votes.
(Harry Byrd received 15 electoral votes.)
At the time Illinois had 27 electoral votes.
For those of you who don't understand math, if you take away 27 votes from Kennedy it leaves him with 276. If you add 27 EVs to Nixon he ends up with 246. 246 is less than 276. Kennedy still wins.
So quit whining.
