JFK didn't win 1960 election--it was a tie

[book_worm]

Nixon shouldn't have conceded:

JFK: 49.72%
Nixon: 49.55%

0.2% popular vote lead out of 68.8 million votes cast.

[virtualobserver]

1. I feel your pain

[merrily]

5. The Plurality Kid!

[Recursion]

2. And Chicago had about 102% turnout that year (nt)

[LiberalArkie]

4. I think Arkansas had a large casket electorate also.

[Deny and Shred]

7. Some established people with influence helped him out (nt)

[ieoeja]

8. For the record, the Illinois recount found far more irregularities downstate than in Chicago.

JFK's Illinois lead increased during the recount.

[merrily]

3. Please tell me you know Presidential elections don't work that way.

[Matariki]

10. lol

best response Merrily.

[Tom Rinaldo]

6. And Bush beat Gore. Fortunately the Supremes quashed all that recount nonsense

And you know that Iowa didn't settle anything. No one was being elected to an office there. If Hillary didn't brag so much about winning it would be OK, but she does. It is not about who gets to take office, it is about who did or did not do well there.

The accurate term to describe the Iowa results given how tight they were is: Inconclusive.

[Matariki]

9. Well and good if we were talking about a general election

but since it's assignment of delegates, and early in the process at that, 2/10 of a percent isn't really that significant. Yet.