If CNN Covered the 1864 Election Night
Published: November 4th, 2008
Donna Brazile:
What about New York? 33 votes, and all went to Lincoln? New York is very progressive and is strongly anti-war. Or take Missouri. They voted for slavery (hence the Missouri compromise), yet voted for… Lincoln? And finally, there was definitely some manipulating going on in the South. Why not allow the Southern states, not to mention border states, vote? So what if they rebelled? They’re still Americans! OK, technically they’re Confederates and don’t consider themselves Americans, but they’re still people.
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