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Lincoln’s Election, Southern Secession: 1860 to April 1861

1860

Was there any chance Lincoln could have lost the general election?

Not in an absolute sense. Given that there were four parties involved, and that the once-mighty Democrats were split in two, it was almost inevitable that the Republicans would win in November. But the margin of the victory would be very important in the effort to assert that Lincoln was the legitimate chief executive.



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