You voter in 1960.

Nixon or Kennedy for Presidfent in 1960?

  • Nixon

    Votes: 75 48.1%
  • Kennedy

    Votes: 81 51.9%

  • Total voters
    156
To say a few words

Nixon 4 Ever

Now on to the substance, Kennedy was the obama of 1960. He was young, charismatic, and upbeat.Nixon was viewed as old, miserable, and angry, so he was the John McCain of 1960.

Did Nixon have his enemies list in 1960? or did that only come later?


A bit of irony: I would have voted Obama in 08, yet i still think Hillary Clinton should be president now!!!

Now of course the republican party of 1960 is so different from today's republican party that nixon would be considered a RINO.

Historical republicans whom today would be democrats

Thomas Dewey
Nelson Rockefeller
Abraham Lincon
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Wendell Wilkie
Gerald Ford
Barry Goldwater(probally would be a libertarian)
 
Texas is debatable, Illinois both sides cheated (Daley had to up the Cook total to overcome the GOP's Rest of Illinois) but IL and TX mean a Nixon win.
 
Nixon 4 Ever

Now on to the substance, Kennedy was the obama of 1960. He was young, charismatic, and upbeat.Nixon was viewed as old, miserable, and angry, so he was the John McCain of 1960.

Did Nixon have his enemies list in 1960? or did that only come later?


A bit of irony: I would have voted Obama in 08, yet i still think Hillary Clinton should be president now!!!

Now of course the republican party of 1960 is so different from today's republican party that nixon would be considered a RINO.

Historical republicans whom today would be democrats

Thomas Dewey
Nelson Rockefeller
Abraham Lincon
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Wendell Wilkie
Gerald Ford
Barry Goldwater(probally would be a libertarian)

Excellent post, all past Republican presidents and aspirants will be a Democrat today and only Goldwater will remain Republican. Richard Nixon is more liberal in economic aspects or maybe social than Kennedy and I suspect that Kennedy right now will be a right-center Democrat or Blue Dog Democrats and Nixon will be left-center Democrat or DLC Democrat. Abraham Lincoln in today's politics will not last, he's too idealistic to be elected in any post. By the way, Nixon lost because he had an injury during the campaign trail IIRC in North Carolina one week before the debate and when the debate started, Nixon looks old, tired, and exhausted and unconfident while Kennedy looks like a matinee idol, fresh and upbeat. Nixon lost because he's not a multi-millionaire candidate unlike Kennedy, a son of a long-time Irish American political family in Boston.

Also, Nixon is an average American candidate raised in the middle class family, raised in California, and speaks standard American accent while Kennedy is an elite candidate, Ivy school graduate, raised in the suburbs of Boston, speaks like a typical southern British accent. The Nixon-Kennedy rivalry is like the NBA rivalry of the Los Angeles Lakers and the Boston Celtics.
 
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JFK was a lot less healthy then the voters ever knew. Not that it impeded his presidential performance- Dallek thoroughly debunks that myth among many others- but the image was very much an illusion. He had to take the Marine 1 stairs one at a time out of public view, and could never bend completely over because of zero spinal flex. Hell, even putting on socks by himself was an effort.
 
JFK was a lot less healthy then the voters ever knew. Not that it impeded his presidential performance- Dallek thoroughly debunks that myth among many others- but the image was very much an illusion. He had to take the Marine 1 stairs one at a time out of public view, and could never bend completely over because of zero spinal flex. Hell, even putting on socks by himself was an effort.

Yeah, I'm agree that Kennedy also is not healthy due to his Addison Disease but during the debate, his physical health was unnoticed by the audience because it was just a black-and-white TV and analog and Kennedy maybe prepares well the debate.
 
He prepared for the debate by getting a spa treatment in a hotel room with gorgeous gals who might or might not have provided other services, and practicing index cards in bed.

Re debate: that's because Bobby cranked the thermostat and made Nixon melt in front of the cameras. (The Ruthless One strikes again) Also because Nixon wasn't aggressive enough (remember, they had been friends for years before Nixon's "it's not Jack's money they're spending" crack), rather like Gordon Brown's incessant "I agree with Nick" a few months ago. In this case "I don't question Sen. Kennedy's motives." So an ATL debate between Tricky Dick and Ruthless Bobby in '68 would be much less genteel, while still *relatively* civil.
 
Nixon 4 Ever

Now on to the substance, Kennedy was the obama of 1960. He was young, charismatic, and upbeat.Nixon was viewed as old, miserable, and angry, so he was the John McCain of 1960.

Did Nixon have his enemies list in 1960? or did that only come later?


A bit of irony: I would have voted Obama in 08, yet i still think Hillary Clinton should be president now!!!

Now of course the republican party of 1960 is so different from today's republican party that nixon would be considered a RINO.

Historical republicans whom today would be democrats

Thomas Dewey
Nelson Rockefeller
Abraham Lincon
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
Wendell Wilkie
Gerald Ford
Barry Goldwater(probally would be a libertarian)

Ahh... that list sooths the wounds of my upset grandparents (born 1905 & 1909) who saw their beloved Republican party hijacked by conservative crazies. My grandmother was a relative of the guy who unnofficially ran the Republican political party of Pennsylvania after the Civil War, like boss Tweed did for New York--never liked that particular Quay anyway. When she registered to vote, they didn't even ask her what party she wanted to register for--they assumed from her last name she was a Republican.

Don't forget Teddy, he wouldn't be a Republican by today's standards.

I'm for Nixon. Kennedy's the Devil.
 
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Neither of them as I would have been too young and I am not as US Citizen however if I did qualify then it would have been Kennedy. Kennedy offered hope and change, the new frontier as not what your country can do for you etc.
 
Teddy in today's politics will be a leftist fringe candidate. His economic policies will be considered by the Teabaggers as communism/eltism. His socio-political stance will be unpopular to the bigots.

And his economic policies would make him a hippie. The only modern mainstream thing I could think about him was his Naval aspirations.
 
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