ku dhameystir weedha soo socota: Senator Kennedy waxa uu kaalinta labaad ka galay codbixinta madaxweyne ku xigeenka
Shirweynihii Qaranka ee Xisbiga Dimuqraadiga 1956 Kadib markii madaxweynihii Jamhuuriga Dwight D. Eisenhower dib loogu doortay Adlai Stevenson doorashadii madaxtinimada ee 1956, Kennedy wuxuu bilaabay inuu diyaariyo dalabka madaxtinimada doorashadii 1960. Bishii Janaayo 1960, Kennedy wuxuu si rasmi ah ugu dhawaaqay musharaxnimadiisa doorashada madaxtinimada ee sannadkaas. Senator Hubert Humphrey oo ka tirsan Minnesota ayaa u soo muuqday tartankii ugu horreeyay ee Kennedy ee doorashooyinkii hore ee 1960 ee Dimuqraadiga, laakiin guushii Kennedy ee gobolka West Virginia ee aadka loo diiday ayaa ku kaliftay Humphrey inuu ka baxo tartanka. Shirweynihii qaranka ee xisbiga Dimuqraadiga ee 1960kii, Kennedy wuxuu iska caabiyay caqabadihii ka yimid Stevenson iyo Senator Lyndon B. Johnson ee Texas si uu ugu guuleysto magacaabista madaxweynaha codbixintii ugu horreysay ee shirweynaha. Kennedy wuxuu u doortay Johnson inuu noqdo madaxweyne ku xigeenkiisa, in kasta oo ay mucaarad ku yihiin ergooyin badan oo xor ah iyo shaqaalaha Kennedy, oo ay ku jiraan walaalkiis Robert F. Kennedy. Kennedy wuxuu aaminsanaa in joogitaanka Johnson ee tigidhka ay rafcaan u noqon doonto codbixiyayaasha Koonfurta, wuxuuna u maleynayay in Johnson uu u adeegi karo xiriir qiimo leh Senate-ka.