John F. Kennedy won his first election to the U.S. Senate in 1952 by just 70,000 votes. His opponent, incumbent Republican Senator Henry Cabot Lodge, faced a deeply divided Republican Party, and JFK’s victory was as much attributable to Lodge’s weakness as his own strength.
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