Eric Black of MinnPost has an interesting article comparing the campaigning and voting practices of 1860 which elected Abraham Lincoln with what we know now and how the election map has rotated almost 180 degrees.
He notes some of the differences in ballots between then and now. The ballots were far from secret and arguing about stray marks and dangling chads would seem strange.
Sometimes it seems that our new president was taking extreme measures to compare himself with his fellow Illinoisian. Black finds some comparison, noting that Obama carried every state that
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