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To: Dengar01
I'll just come out and say it for those who have an 8th grade education. There was a man from Illinois who lost the IL US Senate Seat to one Stephen Douglass, everyone (Trump, Fox News, Drudge, Insiders including some here) said that Abe Lincoln would never win the Presidency.

There was a time when an eighth-grade education meant something. Today, your average college graduate doesn't know the circumstances that brought Lincoln to the nomination. But I can assure you it was nothing like today, and it came as a complete surprise to a lot of people when a few people finally made the difficult decision to go with Abe Lincoln.

66 posted on 03/19/2012 5:36:11 AM PDT by Lady Lucky (Gingrich 2012: Open Throttle for America)
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To: Lady Lucky
I think you missed my point. The point being is people like Donald Trump are running around saying how "Santorum was thrown out of his own seat, he can't win."

Well 2006 many Repubs were thrown out giving us the worst Speaker of the House in history.

Yes, Lincoln won because the Democrat party was split due to the Southern States, however most of New England which was where the majority of the population was voted for Lincoln.

117 posted on 03/19/2012 2:23:01 PM PDT by Dengar01 (Go Bulls!!! Go Blackhawks!!!)
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