1860: Abraham Lincoln vs John C. Breckinridge

[Senator-elect Spark]

Let's say that Douglas withdraws and the borders states lean toward Lincoln. Who wins?

[Amenhotep Bakari-Sellers]

Lincoln, CA was brought in as a free state, to end slavery and bring Lincoln to power

[Some of My Best Friends Are Gay]

Obviously Lincoln still wins, thank God.

[MASHED POTATOES. VOTE!]

Dear dumbass OP,

Read damn posting rules before putting such crap on the main board again.

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The Staff.

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Lincoln obviously wins. Even though over 60% voted for another candidate, Lincoln still would win the electoral college against a united opposition.

[brucejoel99]

If you look at the 1860 electoral map, you'll see that each of the candidates basically ran separate campaigns that appealed to a very small sectional group. Douglas' votes were in the North, & Breckenridge & Bell split the vote in the South (which Lincoln was never gonna contest, let alone win anyway). Even if you combined ALL of the non-Lincoln votes together into Breckinridge, Lincoln STILL would've won, & he only would've lost CA & OR, which together had 7 electoral votes, allowing him to still win the Electoral College by 173-130. Of course, this means that he'd have won less than 40% of the popular vote against a candidate that would've won over 60%, which kinda blows your mind but it's mathematically true; Lincoln basically campaigned in only half of the country, & his vote totals showed that. It was the Electoral College that saved him in the end, & even a unified Democratic ticket probably wouldn't have been able to defeat him.