Douglas said had one series after another of successfully more important positions in politics. Lincoln was born to run against douglas for the senate. Of course in that time senators are chosen by state legislators. The thought was that if the parties named their Senate Nominees and campaigns throughout the state people could be persuaded to vote for one legislator or another based upon party. Of course those a famous series of debates were they talk about the great issues of the day, the expansion of slavery, popular sovereignty, and the country discovers what lincolns friends and political allies have long now, a brilliant, crafty, an exponent of these issues that he believed in. So in the process of winning this election he becomes a national celebrity. Well, election lincoln actually was the most votes. Remember, the district at the time are not run according to one man one vote. There were a number of holdover Democratic Senators who have been elected. Lincoln was the majority of
Historian and priest ronald examines the role religion plays. The report is that the progressive evangelicalism is a factor in winning the 1976 president ial election however the same evangelical population that supported the president s First Campaign in the searc sear him four years later in favor of Ronald Reagan. This is just over an hour. Welcome. Its a pleasure for me tonight to introduce randall who is the family professor of arts and sciences at dartmouth college. I have followed his career for a long time. His undergraduate work was done where my father was 18 and my brother attended that school at the same time and randy has turned into one of our great modern american historians. One of the things that makes him great is that he minds the resources of the president ial libraries. He has come here to the Carter Library and has gone through and found a very interesting document that other people have not seen before and he has done that at other president ial libraries. Combin
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