This is of course the fault of the Southerners themselves, who in a fit of childish insanity rejected Douglas as nominee because he believed Western states should be allowed to ban slavery if they wished
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Think for a second about the absurdity of the 1860 election: in a runoff Lincoln would have lost to Douglas 60-40 but instead he wins and Southerners understandably view him as illegitimate and secede.
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Runoff elections weren't established as the method of electing the President, first-past-the-post was. If the Southern States didn't like it, they should have aggressively pushed for changing the voting method, not seceded. Lincoln's election was perfectly legitimate.
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Seceding is about as aggressive a approach as it gets when it gets to changing laws.
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You're right that he would have lost the popular vote, but he still would have won electoral college vote. Albeit it was close. Lincoln just barely scraped by in Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois. Without Ohio, or Indiana and Illinois, he would have lost this hypothetical election.pic.twitter.com/juRQU53CSc
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