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The Democratic platform in 1960 was the longest yet. [8] They called for a loosening of tight economic policy: "We Democrats believe that the economy can and must grow at an average rate of 5 percent annually, almost twice as fast as our annual rate since 1953...As the first step in speeding economic growth, a Democratic president will put an end to the present high-interest-rate, tight-money ...
The Democratic Party also has considerable support in the small yet growing Asian American population. The Asian American population had been a stronghold of the Republican Party until the United States presidential election of 1992 in which George H. W. Bush won 55% of the Asian American vote, compared to Bill Clinton winning 31% and Ross Perot winning 15%.
From March 8 to June 7, 1960, voters and members of the Democratic Party elected delegates to the 1960 Democratic National Convention through a series of caucuses, conventions, and primaries, partly for the purpose of nominating a candidate for President of the United States in the 1960 election.
The 1960 presidential vote by demographic subgroup Demographic subgroup Kennedy Nixon Total vote 50.1 49.9 Gender Men 52 48 Women 49 51 Age 18–29 years old 54 46 30–49 years old 54 46 50 and older 46 54 Race White: 49 51 Black: 68 32 Religion Protestants 38 62 Catholics 78 22 Party Democrats: 84 16 Republicans: 5 95 Independents: 43 57 ...
The 2012 Democratic Party platform endorses maintaining commitment to Israel's security, claiming a strong and secure Israel is vital because of strategic interests and common values, the Obama administration providing nearly $10 billion to Israel in the past three years, military support for Israel, such as the Iron Dome system, the Egypt ...
1960: Senator John F. Kennedy: MA 1917 52.9 - Senator Lyndon B. Johnson: TX 1908 26.8 - 1956: F. Governor: Adlai Stevenson II: IL 1900 65.9 - Governor W. Averell Harriman: NY 1891 15.3 - 1952: Governor Adlai Stevenson II: IL 1900 10.2 Senator Estes Kefauver: TN 1903 24.4 22.7 Senator Richard Russell, Jr. GA 1897 21.7 21.3 F. Ambassador: W ...
The 1960 presidential campaign of John F. Kennedy, then junior United States senator from Massachusetts, was formally launched on January 2, 1960, as Senator Kennedy announced his intention to seek the Democratic Party nomination for the presidency of the United States in the 1960 presidential election.
There were 437 seats, the most in U.S. history: 435 from the reapportionment in accordance with the 1950 census, and one seat for each of the new states of Alaska and Hawaii. Although Democrats retained control, it was the first time since 1908 that an incoming president's party lost seats in the House, which would not happen again until 1988.