[GOPcapitalist]

Oh. Tell me again then, how Douglas won the debates?

By publicly making an issue of the contradictions in The Lincoln's speeches from town to town.

[WhiskeyPapa]

Oh. Tell me again then, how Douglas won the debates?

By publicly making an issue of the contradictions in The Lincoln's speeches from town to town.

There's no doubt that Lincoln couched his argument in different terms as he moved further into southern Illinois. But I reckon the record can stand your interpretation -- especially as it is similar to making a horse chestnut into a chestnut horse.

Lincoln wound up in the White House. Douglas did not.

That process started in these debates.

Walt