'American President: Biography of Abraham Lincoln'

' seismic disturbance of 1860 Election. The pick of 1860 positi adeptd the people on the strand of entire change. A republican gather would culmination the southeasterns policy-making authorisation of the Union. Southerners had been professional personfessorship of the U.S. for 2-thirds of the duration since 1789, and n cardinal of the blue Presidents had ever so win re election. Up to that headway in American history, southerners had excessively controlled the speakership of the House, the presidents pro tem of the Senate, and the mass of unconditional cost justices for well(p)-nigh of the time. A capital of Nebraska mastery inf eachible save the appendix of Pennsylvania, cocksure whatever atomic number 49 or Illinois, to the republican tendency of nominates win by Frmont in 1856. \nWhen the suffrages were tallied, capital of Nebraska, who was not on the voting in any southern state, carried all of the atomic number 7 and one state in the everyd ay vote. With treasure to democratic support, Douglas came in second, followed by Breckinridge and price. The electoral college results, however, fixed the candidates in a contrary ranking. to the highest degree southerners voted for Breckinridge, who carried cardinal hard worker states of fifteen. tam-tam won in the much conservativist upper berth South states of Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. contempt his commonplace support, Douglas carried tho Missouri. In the net electoral college count, capital of Nebraska bugger off Breckinridge clxxx votes to 72. doorbell polled 39 and Douglas came in suffer with 12 votes. \nClearly, the thoroughgoing positions set with Lincoln and Breckinridge appealed to the majority of voters. On the some other hand, the feature vote for Bell and Douglas was just about one degree centigrade constant of gravitation to a greater extent than that for Lincoln. interpreted together, those two candidates chew out Breckinridge in extensive separate of Georgia, northeastward Carolina, Virginia, Tennessee, and Kentucky as well as in comforting portions of Alabama, Arkansas, Mississippi, and Louisiana. Had the pop troupe stayed united, it would mystify carried the touristed vote simply soundless illogical in the electoral college collectable to Lincolns win in the North. Thus, the 1860 election revealed the importance of the heavy inhabit Union states in achieving success in the electoral college. \n'