Pemilihan umum Presiden Amerika Serikat 1960

Pemilihan umum presiden Amerika Serikat 1960 adalah pemilihan presiden empat tahunan ke-44, yang diselenggarakan pada hari Selasa, 8 November 1960. Partai Republik mencalonkan petahana Wakil Presiden Richard Nixon, sedangkan Partai Demokrat mencalonkan John F. Kennedy, Senator AS dari Massachusetts. Presiden petahana, Dwight D. Eisenhower dari partai Republik, tidak memenuhi syarat untuk pemilihan kembali setelah terpilih maksimum dua kali diperbolehkan oleh Amendemen ke-Dua Puluh Dua; ia adalah Presiden pertama dipengaruhi oleh perubahan itu. Ini adalah pemilihan presiden pertama di mana pemilih di Alaska dan Hawaii mampu berpartisipasi, karena mereka telah menjadi negara bagian pada tahun 1959.

Referensi

Bacaan lebih lanjut 
 
 Ambrose, Stephen. Nixon: The Education of a Politician, 1913–1962 (1987) ch 25–26
 Campbell, Angus; et al. (1966). Elections and the Political Order, statistical studies of survey data
 Casey, Shaun A. The Making of a Catholic President: Kennedy vs. Nixon, 1960 (Oxford UP, 2009) 261 pp.
 
 Divine, Robert A. Foreign Policy and U.S. Presidential Elections, 1952–1960 (1974).
 Donaldson, Gary A. The First Modern Campaign: Kennedy, Nixon, and the Election of 1960 (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007). 199 pp.
 Ingle, H. Larry, "Billy Graham: The Evangelical in Politics, 1960s-Style," in Peter Bien and Chuck Fager, eds. In Stillness there is Fullness: A Peacemaker's Harvest, (Kimo Press, 2000)

Sumber primer 
 Gallup, George H., ed. The Gallup Poll: Public Opinion, 1935–1971. 3 vols. Random House, 1972. poll results

Historiografi 
 Brands, Hal. "Burying Theodore White: Recent Accounts of the 1960 Presidential Election," Presidential Studies Quarterly 2010. Vol. 40#2 pp 364+. online edition

Pranala luar 
 The Election Wall's 1960 Election Video Page
 1960 popular vote by counties
 1960 popular vote by states
 1960 popular vote by states (with bar graphs)
 Gallery of 1960 Election Posters/Buttons 
 Campaign commercials from the 1960 election
 How close was the 1960 election? — Michael Sheppard, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
 Battleground West Virginia: Electing the President in 1960 —West Virginia Archives and History On-Line Exhibit
 
 Election of 1960 in Counting the Votes 

 
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Presiden

John F. Kennedy
Richard Nixon
Lyndon B. Johnson