Campaign Trail Results: Game #1064651

This Game:

  • Year: 1860
  • Player Candidate: Stephen A. Douglas
  • Running Mate: James Guthrie
  • Difficulty Level: Normal
  • Winner Take All Mode?: Yes
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View overall results, or a specific state:
CandidateElectoral VotesPopular VotesPop. Vote %
---- Abraham Lincoln1812,046,07843.64
---- John C. Breckinridge72918,21919.58
---- John Bell48686,49214.64
---- Stephen A. Douglas21,038,24522.14

Answers:

  • How should your party address the slavery issue during this campaign?
    The threat of a Southern schism has forced our hand. We must accept the protection of slavery in federal territories, and protect the instution in future states like Kansas and New Mexico.
  • What do you have to say about the merits of your running mate, James Guthrie?
    I'm proud to share a ballot with James Guthrie of Kentucky.
  • To what extent do you plan to personally campaign in this election?
    Like most candidates, I will remain above the fray personally, and allow my supporters to stump on my behalf.
  • How aggressively should your party attack the Republicans and Abraham Lincoln in this election?
    Lincoln and his party are abolitionists, whether they care to admit it or not. I don't believe a majority in the North would support them if this were fully understood.
  • How aggressively should your party attack the Constitutional Unionists and John Bell in this election?
    We'll attack the Constitutional Union party the same as any other opponents.
  • How aggressively should your party attack the Southern Democrats and John Breckenridge in this election?
    We've obviously had our falling out at the Convention this year, but we will eventually need to rebuild our party. Going on the attack in this case will only make things worse.
  • What is your opinion on the formation of fusion tickets in the Northern states to consolidate the anti-Lincoln vote?
    We cannot sacrifice the prestige of the Democratic Party by making these kinds of deals.
  • Will you keep your name on the ballot in Oregon and California, even if doing so might divide the anti-Lincoln vote?
    No, I will not. I have a good chance of winning them and I need every vote I can get.
  • What should your party's position be on the raid of John Brown, late in 1859?
    We will keep silent on this episode as we campaign.
  • Do you have any comment on the paramilitary “Wide Awake” clubs that have marched in support of Republicans?
    In our volatile environment, it is hardly helpful to have many thousand young men marching in pseudo-military garb, professing their support for the Republicans.
  • Should your party continue its familiar attacks on the “black Republicans” as abolitionists and supporters of social and political equality for blacks?
    Of course we should. This is one of most effective attacks we have against the shenanigans of the Republicans.
  • What position should your party take on the tariff question in this election?
    Everybody knows that the Democrats are the party of low tariffs, and we intend to keep it that way.
  • How much should your party emphasize its support of a Transcontinental Railroad in this election?
    Perhaps as a compromise with the sentiment of the Deep South, we could accept a new position on this issue.
  • How much should your party emphasize its support of a homestead act in this election?
    Part of any compromise with Southern Democrats would involve a resolution in the territories. By what rights should planters be denied their opportunity to purchase western land?
  • What position should your party take on foreign immigration and nationalization in this election?
    The Democrats are in favor of our current naturalization laws. That is my position and I stand by it.
  • What is your position on the Supreme Court's Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?
    We believe that the Supreme Court is the highest law in the land, and should be respected by all decent Americans.
  • Do you have anything to say about the efforts of some to reopen the Atlantic slave trade?
    Let's keep a low profile on this issue and hope it passes. We don't need to make things worse by issuing controversial statements.
  • Do you support the further expansion of the United States into Mexico, Cuba, or the Caribbean?
    My party and I support the acquisition of Cuba, and of other territories if possible.
  • What is your position on the passage of “personal liberty laws” by various states, to flout the Fugitive Slave Act?
    These are the types of radical abolitionist measures which have caused so many problems in our politics. The federal law takes precedence.
  • Would you support a compromise Amendment which permanently protected slavery in the Southern states, in return for no further expansion of the institution?
    Not really. I'm all for compromise between the sections, but how could we have a permanent Amendment to the Constitution? Couldn't we have another Amendment to amend that Amendment?
  • If any Southern state was to secede, would you use military force as President to preserve the Union?
    If I am elected, this type of thing would not happen. This question has no relevance to events.
  • Do you believe that a Republican victory would result in a flood of free blacks into Northern states and western territories?
    This is the logical conclusion of the Republican program, if they succeed in closing off slavery and slowly extinguishing it.
  • Should the proposed constitution for the state of Kansas be accepted by Congress, and Kansas admitted as a free state?
    Part of any future compromise with Southern interests may involve the admission of Kansas as a slave state. We should not preclude that possibility at the current time.
  • Do you have any comments on the Lemmon v. New York case which may be making its way to the Supreme Court?
    Our party platform clearly states that we will respect the decisions of the Supreme Court.
  • Is there a particular state that you would concentrate your efforts on during the final days of the campaign?
    Our case is hopeless in this election. I will go south and speak out against secession, to the best of my capacity.