> In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states, won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.
I wonder if history will also come to record the 2024 election as a referendum on the question of how Law should discriminate by Race.
History is already recording the 2016-2024 elections as a story about how so many people got duped by a conman and how so many small time grifters, from Pence to DeSantis, tried to ride his coattails and got burned. https://thehill.com/opinion/columnists/juan-williams/4138348...
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> In a four-way contest, the Republican Party ticket of Abraham Lincoln and Hannibal Hamlin, absent from the ballot in ten slave states, won a national popular plurality, a popular majority in the North where states already had abolished slavery, and a national electoral majority comprising only Northern electoral votes.
I wonder if history will also come to record the 2024 election as a referendum on the question of how Law should discriminate by Race.