1960 RESULTS

Kennedy-Johnson (D) 34,220,984 (49.7%) 303 electoral votes 22 states

Nixon-Lodge (R) 34,108,157 (49.6%) 219 electoral votes 26 states

H. Byrd-Thurmond (Dixiecrats) 15 electoral votes 2 states

SOME PERCENTAGES

Kennedy Nixon

Democrats 84.4 15.6

Independents 46.5 53.5

Republicans 4.7 95.3

Catholics 80.1 19.9

Catholic Democrats 96.0 4.0

Catholic independents 74.6 25.5

Catholic Republicans 21.4 78.6

Mainline Protestants 34.4 65.7

Mainline Prot. Democrats 79.7 20.3

Evangelical Protestants 44.0 56.0

Evangelical Democrats 72.4 27.6

African Americans 73.3 26.7

Men 47.1 53.0

Women 52.6 47.4

lives in rural/small town 44.4 55.6

lives in South 51.1 48.9

union household 63.8 36.2

income lower income higher income

debate video sites: opening: http://www.archive.org/details/1960_kennedy-nixon_1

some more: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QazmVHAO0os