[crz]

And just what was the party campaign slogan for the 1868 democrats?

Huh?

What did the democrat party platform say for the 1864 campaign?

Huh?

Want to go look at some of the campaign posters from the democrat party in those days?

[Svartalfiar]

You realize in 1860 Lincoln only won with 40% of the vote, right? But he pulled in the electoral college.

'64 is pretty useless, since the Democrat party was much stripped down since the Confederate States didn't vote. Lincoln moved his 40% popular up to 55% or so. Because the only non-Repub States at that point were MO, DE, and RI. You can't really look at the Confederate elections, because they only had one, and Davis ran unaffiliated, with 97% of the vote. With a six year term, there was no intermediate election.

Here's a bit from the Dem's 1868 platform, railing against centralized FedGov power. Sure doesn't sound like the Dems of today!

And we do declare and resolve, That ever since the people of the United States threw off all subjection to the British crown, the privilege and trust of suffrage have belonged to the several States, and have been granted, regulated, and controlled exclusively by the political power of each State respectively, and that any attempt by Congress, on any pretext whatever, to deprive any State of this right, or interfere with its exercise, is a flagrant usurpation of power, which can find no warrant in the Constitution; and if sanctioned by the people will subvert our form of government, and can only end in a single centralized and consolidated government, in which the separate existence of the States will be entirely absorbed, and an unqualified despotism be established in place of a federal union of co-equal States; and that we regard the reconstruction acts so-called, of Congress, as such an usurpation, and unconstitutional, revolutionary, and void. . . .