Richard Nixon/Henry Cabot Lodge campaign ad. This was one of our more interesting elections in history. John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson won with four fewer states and only carried 0.2% more of the popular vote. Had Harry Byrd and Strom Thurmond not run on an independent ticket, Nixon may have carried the popular vote, would have had six more states than Kennedy, and still would have lost by 77 electoral votes.
