What do you suppose Lincoln’s popularity rating would have been had the press been trying to run the country by phony polls say, in the spring of 1864?
“What do you suppose Lincoln’s popularity rating would have been had the press been trying to run the country by phony polls say, in the spring of 1864?”
Would Lincoln have been re-elected if the press harped during 1864 on the actrocities Union troops committed against civilians in Atlanta, convinced the populace that union was an ‘unwinnable war’, and accused Lincoln of being an army deserter?