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Historian of the 19th Century U.S. and Associate Prof. at Maryville College. Author of Rebels on the Border and Civil War along Tennessee's Cumberland Plateau

Maryville, TN
Joined June 2009

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    Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 5 Jul 2020

    Has anybody ever tried and failed to thread a political needle more than Stephen Douglas in 1858-60?

    8:17 AM - 5 Jul 2020
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      1. Chipster Polyhistor‏ @daChipster 5 Jul 2020
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        Challenge accepted! Neville Chamberlain

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      1. Syncopated Politics‏ @SyncPol 5 Jul 2020
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        Popular Sovereignty had a certain 10th Amendment-like logic. Except it left many appalled. Lincoln characterized efforts like this as "contrivances such as groping for some middle ground between the right and the wrong."

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      1. Scott A. MacKenzie‏ @5thBorderState 5 Jul 2020
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        Henry Clay missed many opportunities throughout most of his long political career - including the corrupt bargain that robbed him of the presidency in 1824. Then there's his attempts at sectional compromise in the ensuing years.

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      1. doug marcus‏ @dougmarcus 5 Jul 2020
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        they were the 2 senators from illinois. i think up until trump vs clinton, not sure was residency trump is and clinton was a ny senator, has there been a presidential fight between opponents of the same state.

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      1. doug marcus‏ @dougmarcus 5 Jul 2020
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        freeport doctrine vs kansas-nebraska act. the political thinking of george and kellyann conway.

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      1. Tyler Anbinder‏ @TylerAnbinder 5 Jul 2020
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        The fact that he owned a plantation in Mississippi with hundreds of slaves should not be forgotten

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      2. Candice Shy Hooper 🖋‏ @shyhooper 5 Jul 2020
        Replying to @AstorAaron

        Sidney Blumenthal's third book on Lincoln was revelatory to me about Stephen Douglas during those years.

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      3. Edward Robert McClelland‏ @TedMcClelland 6 Jul 2020
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        I ordered that book from the Abraham Lincoln Book Shop. Can't wait. Douglas was enormously important to Chicago -- he made it the nation's rail hub -- but popular sovereignty overshadows all his achievements.

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      2. Eric Michael Burke‏ @xv40rds 5 Jul 2020
        Replying to @AstorAaron

        Have you ever heard of Kanye West?

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      3. Aaron Astor‏ @AstorAaron 5 Jul 2020
        Replying to @xv40rds

        That's not really "threading" anything as much as it is unwinding the spool.

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