***Popular votes don’t elect a president. Electoral votes do. ***
And WHO today is screaming for an end to the Electoral College, and Presidential elections decided by ONLY the Popular vote? The Democrats!
Lincoln still won, Slaves were freed and today still grovel at the feet of their Democratic masters.
If you ever get the chance to hear Dinesh D'Souza speak on this subject, he gives multi-points comparing of how slaves lived antebellum to their descendants lives as Democrat voters today.
Someday if I get the chance, I'll copy his points down and post them here -- very revealing.
Which is neither here nor there. My point in responding to you to begin with is to disagree with your claim that had the Democrats united behind a single candidate then Lincoln would have been defeated and would be no more remembered than men like John Davis, Lewis Cass, or John Floyd are.