In September and October, Kennedy debated Republican candidate and Vice President Richard Nixon in the first televised U.S. presidential debates in U.S. history. Kennedy was from the Democratic party and Nixon from the Republican party. In the national popular vote Kennedy led Nixon by just two-tenths of one percent (49.7% to 49.5%), while in the Electoral College he won 303 votes to Nixon's 219 (269 were needed to win). Another 14 electors from Mississippi and Alabama refused to support Kennedy because of his support for the civilrights movement; they voted for Senator Harry F. Byrd, Sr. of Virginia.
Saturday, 1 May 2010
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