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The Peace Platform: How Democrats Lost the 1864 Election

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  • As the Civil War dragged on, Abraham Lincoln’s election hopes in 1864 continued to become smaller and smaller. As late as August 23, 1864, Lincoln wrote, “This morning, as for some days past, it seems exceedingly probable that this Administration will not be re-elected. Then it will be my duty to so co-operate with the President elect, as to save the Union between the election and the inauguration.” However, President Lincoln ended up crushing General George B. McClellan on November 8, 1864 in the general election by an electoral margin of 212 to 21. He won 55% of the popular vote, and carried every state except Kentucky, Delaware, and New Jersey. How did Lincoln go from writing about his probable defeat to carrying all but three states in the election? The conventional argument is that late Union military victories swung public opinion and morale in Lincoln’s favor and gave him a second term.
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