Washington DC (October 11, 2005) – Approaching the first anniversary of last year Presidential election, Senator John Kerry today announced that he had written a tell-all book, detailing his 2004 presidential campaign and his plan for the upcoming 2008 election. It would provide an “in-depth, first-person account” addressing all controversial issues of last year’s campaign. Several “newly declassified CIA documents" and some "specific personal notes written by CBS News reporter Dan Rather in Saigon at the time” were included in the book and would definitely prove that he was in Cambodia on secret mission on Christmas 1968, said the Senator. Mr. Kerry also disclosed in his new book, what he really did during his goose hunting trip in the swing state Ohio on October 21, 2004. “I shot two birds, one tiger and four elephants within a couple of minutes,” revealed Mr. Kerry. This fact was kept secret last year, because “I don’t want to lose the PETA votes,” explained the Senator. More details of this book will be disclosed in a special CBS “60 minutes” next Sunday. CBS News confirmed that the Swift Boat Veterans would be granted a counterpoint in the same broadcast.
Mr. Kerry’s book title reflected the Senator’s belief that a swing of 60,000 votes in Ohio would have given him the Ohio electoral votes and the US presidency. However, according to presidential historians, this paled in comparison to "Nixon-Kennedy what-if scenario" in 1960. If only 28,000 votes had swung in Richard Nixon’s favor, Mr. Nixon would have become the US president in 1960, not John Kennedy. In the 1960 presidential election, Kennedy beat Nixon 303 to 219 electoral votes. Kennedy won Illinois' 24 electoral votes by a margin of mere 9,000 votes and Texas' 27 electoral votes by only 46,000 votes. If Nixon had won a mere 4,500 plus one more votes in Illinois and 23,000 plus one more votes in Texas, he would have beaten Kennedy 270 to 252 in electoral votes and won the presidency in 1960.
