<Tr> <Td> 2000 </Td> <Td> Bush, George W. Bush </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 271 / 538 </Td> <Td> 50.37% </Td> <Td> 50,456,002 </Td> <Td> − 543,895 </Td> <Td> 47.87% </Td> <Td> − 0.51% </Td> <Td> Gore, Al Gore </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 51.20% </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> 2016 </Td> <Td> Trump, Donald Trump </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 304 / 538 </Td> <Td> 55.50% </Td> <Td> 62,984,825 </Td> <Td> − 2,868,691 </Td> <Td> 46.09% </Td> <Td> − 2.10% </Td> <Td> Clinton, Hillary Clinton </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> </Td> <Td> 56.30% </Td> </Tr> <P> In the 1960 United States presidential election, Democratic candidate John F. Kennedy defeated Republican candidate Richard Nixon . Kennedy is generally considered to have won the popular vote as well, by a narrow margin, but based on the unusual nature of the election in Alabama, political journalists John Fund and Sean Trende have argued that Nixon actually won the popular vote . </P> <P> Historian and Kennedy associate Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. wrote that, "It is impossible to determine what Kennedy's popular vote in Alabama was" and under one scenario "Nixon would have won the popular vote by 58,000". A third major candidate in the 1960 election was Harry Flood Byrd, Sr. who won 15 electoral votes nationwide that year . According to political scientist Steven Schier, "If one divides the Alabama Democratic votes proportionately between the Kennedy and Byrd slates, Nixon ekes out a 50,000 vote popular plurality ..." </P>

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