There have been five acknowledged presidential elections in US history where the winner of the popular vote did not win in the electoral college.

However, there's a very good argument to be made that there is a sixth election that should be added to that list.

The conventional wisdom holds that

John F. Kennedy narrowly beat Richard Nixon in the 1960 popular vote by 112,827

votes. However, to get to this number you have to put a tortured spin on the numbers from one state in particular.

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First, let me start this episode out by noting that none of the things I'm going to discuss in this episode would have changed the outcome of the 1960 election.

The United States selects its presidents via the Electoral College

and nothing I'm going to talk about would have changed the vote in the Electoral College in 1960.

Also, I'm not going to talk about alleged election fraud

where dead people voted in Chicago or there was ballot stuffing in Texas. That

may or may not have happened, but that is beyond the scope of this episode. I'm also going to be

citing a lot of numbers and just to make it easier to listen and follow along I'm

going to be rounding to the near a thousand. It doesn't change the general

conclusion but it will make it easier to understand.

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