@coldjoint,
coldjoint wrote:
Quote:If your profile is accurate you would have been 6 years old when Kennedy was elected.
My ears were six years old and able to hear adults talking. I remember very well how Daley handed Kennedy Illinois, or that is what the adults were saying about Democrats. In other words, I remember my childhood, vividly, and you have no reason to doubt me besides the fact that you hate me, and it clouds your already questionable judgement.
It's a myth that Daley handed Illinois to Kennedy.
According to Paul von Hipple in
his August 8, 2017 article for the Washington Post, "part of the legend of 1960 is that Daley held back results from Cook County until he knew exactly how many votes were needed to offset Nixon’s margins “downstate” (outside Cook County).
"The historian Edmund Kallina has questioned whether this really happened. He reviewed written accounts of the 1960 election and found little agreement on when results from Cook County or downstate were released.In fact, if you watch NBC’s 1960 election night coverage, Chicago and Cook County actually come in ahead of the rest of the state. By 12:30 a.m., two-thirds of Chicago’s precincts had reported, compared to just half statewide. When the Republican Chicago Tribune went to press, 79 percent of Cook County’s 5,199 precincts were in vs. just 62 percent of Illinois’s 10,015 precincts overall. A little after 7 a.m. Eastern, NBC reported that 850 (8.5 percent) of Illinois precincts were still out, vs. just 400 (7.7 percent) of Cook County precincts, and 200 (5.3 percent) of precincts in Chicago.
"If Chicago and Cook County reported early, they can’t have been used to erase Nixon’s lead. In fact, Nixon never led, and it was Kennedy’s lead that shrank as the night went on. At 12:30 a.m., Kennedy led by 290,000 votes. When the Chicago Tribune went to press, Kennedy’s led by 85,000 votes. His final margin was 8,858. It was Nixon, not Kennedy, who benefited from votes that came in late."
