The 1860 Election Autopsy: https://www.getyarn.io/yarn-clip/37119222-350e-4086-b5c9-0ed3141361b9/gif …
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I mean the electoral college allowed large swaths of their disenfranchised population to be counted
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No, that was an entirely different section. I know a lot of people have tried to confuse the two, but they're really different things.
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Interesting thoughts. Lincoln comes in at 39.8%. Bell at 12.6%. Bell had been a Whig, same as AL. Douglas wins 29.5%, more than 10% of that from IL. How many of his northern voters had Breckinridge as a second preference?
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Much depends on who the united Ds nominate. But in a heads up race against a Democrat I think 45% is his floor and he well could’ve won the popular vote.
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