DBWI: WI JFK had won the WV primary in 1960?

As we all know, Kennedy lost to Hubert Humphrey 60-40 in the West Virginia Democratic primary. This was largely blamed on his religion, and his decision to not discuss the issue rather that defuse it. WI JFK had been nominated? Would Nixon still haved served eight years in the White House?
 
Well Jack Kennedy couldn't win, it become clear to Catholics (and persons with their American roots after 1840) that they would never let fully into the American dream.
 
I'm not sure Kennedy would have won in a match-up with Nixon in the general election. The way Nixon curb-stomped Lyndon and Hubert in '60 and then thrashed Hubert and McCarthy in '64 makes me think he wouldn't fare too much better, which is probably why he didn't make another (failed) attempt at taking the White House until 1968, when the Nixon administration had lost it's luster and the public was firmly on the side of 'law and order' Democrats like Scoop Jackson.
 
It wasn't until 1976, with Sen. Robert Kennedy (D-NY), Jack's brother, edged out Ronald Reagan to be elected the first Catholic President. But he was 50, not 43, when first elected, the prejudice had dimmed somewhat, and he had Fritz Hollings as his running mate, in addition to being the founder of the Democratic Federalist Council (DFC). But since his retirement in 1985 there has never been another Catholic President, or indeed another non-Protestant. Kennedy himself says that "if the Democratic Party opened itself up more to divergent viewpoints, we'd be doing better on the cultural warfare side. I don't feel comfortable in a Democratic Party where pro-lifers are mocked, unless you're a former president like me, and where our entire viewpoint on family values is belittled as Bible-thumping. Evangelical secularism has become the religion of the Democratic Party just as evangelical Protestantism is the Republican religion."
 
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