エイブラハム・リンカーンは1860年11月6日に、北部と西部の票のみで勝利し、共和党初の 대통령 になりました。彼の名前は南部の奴隷州10州では投票用紙にすら記載されませんでしたが、それでも総得票率39.8%で選挙人団を制し、決定的な勝利を収めました。
リンカーン、南部無視で大統領爆誕！得票率39.8%でも勝利した裏ワザ
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> with just 39.8% of the popular vote
Important to note that this was the most among the 4 candidates in 1860.
In our current 2-party system, we tend to think of less than 50% as losing.
The South’s fear of Lincoln blew up in their face. right? From what I’ve understood, it wasn’t clear that he was going to do much about slavery. Their fear that he was, and their refusal to compromise on smaller issues led to their succession.
Ironically, that set the chain of events in motion that ultimately ended slavery.
there were no ballots as we think of them.
As a European with limited knowledge of US history, I hadn’t realised why Lincoln wasn’t on the ballot in so many Southern states in 1860. Remember it’s r/todayilearned and not r/todayIalreadyknew
He also rid the country of vampires. Don’t believe me? Well when was the last time you saw a vampire or heard of a vampire attack on the news?
For the non-American especially but also for too many Americans: the Republican Party was the liberal party at the time(and only a few years old) and the Democratic Party was the conservative Party at the time.
Don’t associate Lincoln in anyway way with the modern Republican Party despite how much modern Republicans try to claim him and try to blame the KKK on the modern Democrats.
Edit: for people saying it was more complicated, you are absolutely right and I definitely oversimplified it more than I should have.
he also fought vampires
In his second election Lincoln won Tennessee and Louisiana pretty decisively. But keep in mind that the Union troops controlled those states at the time, and the Congress threw out those electoral votes because those states were secessionists. Obviously Lincoln still won.
Well, Lincoln was elected on 6 Nov 1860, he became President the following March.
Also, back then Republicans and Democrats basically had reversed ideologies compared to today. The South literally called them “Radical Republicans” during the civil war reform era.
Hey that’s my birthday a century and a bit later!
title makes it sound like he won with less than half the vote, dude had nearly three times the votes as the next candidate.
Conservatives really hated Abraham Lincoln.
Also républicains were democrats at that time isn’t it ?
“Not my president!”
Wow, history can be so surprising sometimes! 😮
Electorate voting should have gone out, when he did.
then he was re-elected as the candidate of the American Party.
Manufactured sympathy for the current Republicans, they wish they were that normal of a human being
…back when Republicans were the progressive/liberals.
MAGA don’t realize this and say they (now conservative Republican) freed the slaves, and use this to deny deflect their bigotry.
anyone else notice that conservative trolls are posting a ton of stuff about how Lincoln was republican and the dems were the slaveholders?
We should remind them every single time that history will never forget the great party switch
Now that is truly a representation of the people.
Bro jumped out a second story window one time to avoid quorum. The boy also packed the court to 10 justices at one point lol
Lots of “the parties switched” cope in this thread.
Also note that the parties then vs now were effectively swapped. All the states and his party would become what is now Democrat states and party.
Remember kids…. Republicans then are the Democrats of today.
He would be a registered democrat today.
Is this where Reddit starts preaching, “Well, acxshually….Lincoln was a Democrat!”
Edited to add:
Oh! Lookie there!!!
This really IS where Reddit starts coming out of the woodwork to proclaim Lincoln was a Democrat..
Redditards never fail to deliver.
Someone wasn’t paying attention in American High School History class…..
He started one hell of a Republican Tradition with that last part.