Английская Википедия:1960 United States presidential election in Wyoming
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The 1960 United States presidential election in Wyoming took place on November 8, 1960, as part of the 1960 United States presidential election. State voters chose three[1] representatives, or electors, to the Electoral College, who voted for president and vice president.
Wyoming was won by the incumbent Vice President, Republican Party (United States) Richard Nixon, running with former United Nations Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., with 55.01 percent of the popular vote, against the Democratic nominee, Massachusetts Senator John F. Kennedy, running with Texas Senator Lyndon B. Johnson, with 44.99% of the popular vote, a 10% margin of victory.[2][3] Nixon's victory was significantly smaller than Dwight Eisenhower's 20.2% margin of victory in 1956.
The election was heavily dominated by tensions with the Soviet Union due to the Cold War, with Kennedy charging that under the Eisenhower Administration, America had fallen behind militarily and economically, and had not done enough to catch up to their adversaries in the Space Race.[4] Nixon emphasized his tough record railing against communism and stated that Kennedy was too young and inexperienced to be president during events as monumental as the Cold War, however the Democrats used Kennedy youth to their advantage, and he promised to bring about change.
In August, when asked about a major idea of Nixon's which he had taken during his presidency, Eisenhower responded "If you give me a week, I might think of one."[5] Although both him and Nixon later claimed this was a joke, the remark severely damanged his Vice President's campaign, with the Democrats using Eisenhower's remarks in television ads. This was also the first presidential election where the two candidates debated, with over 70 million people watching the first debate alone. Nixon was unprepared for the first debate and Kennedy was largely seen as the winner, and though he performed strongly in the next 3, the preceding debates weren't watched by as many people as the first, which hurt Nixon's attempts to catch up.
Kennedy's Catholic faith was also a major issue of the campaign, as the largely Protestant America feared he would take orders from the Pope, and he made significant attempts to assure the public of his support for separation of church from state. The Civil Rights Movement was also a major topic of discussion during the election, with Reverend Martin Luther King Jr.'s arrest during a sit-in in Georgia heavily influencing black voters in favor of Kennedy, helping him to win a narrow victory nationwide.[6] With his election, Kennedy became the first Catholic to get elected President, and would remain the only one until Joe Biden's victory in 2020. Many pundits believed Nixon hadn't taken advantage of Eisenhower's immense popularity, despite the fact that they had campaigned together on numerous occasions, and that his plot to visit all 50 states, including the sparsely populated ones like those of the Mountain West, cost him valuable time that could've been used to shore up his position in swing states. Despite campaigning in the region, Nixon performed much worse than Eisenhower in the Mountain West, losing New Mexico and Nevada, both of which his predecessor had won, and winning the rest by reduced margins from 1956. Kennedy was assassinated in November 1963, resulting in Johnson becoming President. Nixon would go on to make a successful political comeback in the 1968 and 1972 elections, however would resign in 1974 due to The Watergate scandal.
With Nixon's victory in the state, Republicans would see a full sweep of statewide offices that were on the ballot, including the sole House of Representatives election and the Class II Senate seat.
Campaign
At the Democratic National Convention the Wyoming delegation had the ceremonial role of giving Kennedy the minimum amount needed to win the Democratic presidential nomination with Teno Roncalio casting the votes although Tracy S. McCraken, Wyoming's national committeeman, was incorrectly stated to have been the one to cast the votes by Time magazine.[7][8] Governor John J. Hickey stated that the issue over Kennedy's Catholicism would not be important in Wyoming due to Hickey, who was also a Catholic, having won in 1958.[9] During the campaign Nixon conducted a fifty-state strategy and visited every state at least once including Wyoming.
The Republican Party selected Harry B. Henderson, Mary Ellen Hinrichs, and James B. Griffith Sr. as their presidential electors.[10]
Endorsements
Results
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Results by county
Counties that flipped from Republican to Democratic
See also
References
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- ↑ Lee, Byung Joon (September 2016). "Attacking the Airwaves: How Television Changed the American Presidential Campaign". The New England Journal of History. 73: 1–27.
- ↑ Ambrose, Stephen E. (1991). Eisenhower: Soldier and President, p. 525. Simon and Schuster. ISBN 0-671-74758-4.
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20170301180442/https://www.jfklibrary.org/Research/Research-Aids/Ready-Reference/JFK-Fast-Facts/Vandiver-Letter.aspx
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