Dan McLaughlin @baseballcrank makes the interesting point that Lincoln's use of newspaper coverage of his debates with Stephen Douglas was taking advantage of new technology.
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Maybe it's a bit of an exaggeration to assert that telegraphy won the Civil War (Gettysburg might have been a factor, too), but Lincoln was ahead of his time in many ways.
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