WI: 1960 without LBJ?

I attempted, quickly, a map for Kennedy/Jackson in '60. I'm woefully and admittedly ignorant of Scoop Jackson, I believe because I just write him off as a cliche now, so forgive any signs of that. I gave the Democrats the west coast, and the states in the west that were close but went to Nixon, gave Nixon in return more southern states

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274 Kennedy (its 275 on the map, but 1 faithless elector in Oklahoma*)
213 Nixon
50 Byrd

*If the election goes the same there.


I'm pretty sure Nixon wasn't going to lose his home state of California no matter who Jack had as his runnning mate. Although, with that being said, Gore lost his home state of Tennessee in 2000, so it's possible; but in 1960, highly unlikely.
 
Nixon won California by only 0.5%, the smallest margin of victory in any of the states he carried. Of course he could concievably have lost it under even mildly different circumstances.
My thing with that is more with them thinking RFK could win it in 1968, but Scoop Jackson is honestly dull. He wasn't a good campaigner on a national level. He would probably only flip Washington State.

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A pro-JFK bias on what Caro implied would be the case without the "LBJ Special" during 1960. Nevada and West Virginia might flip too, and I would be surprised if the rest of the Democratic South didn't go Dixiecrat. But I gave JFK the benefit of the doubt to show that LBJ really saved JFK's ass. Hard.
 
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