Campaign Trail Results: Game #422849
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This Game:
- Year: 1860
- Player Candidate: Stephen A. Douglas
- Running Mate: Herschel Johnson
- Difficulty Level: Normal
- Winner Take All Mode?: Yes
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View overall results, or a specific state:
| Candidate | Electoral Votes | Popular Votes | Pop. Vote % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ---- Abraham Lincoln | 181 | 1,995,431 | 42.55 |
| ---- John Bell | 62 | 643,234 | 13.72 |
| ---- John C. Breckinridge | 58 | 872,966 | 18.62 |
| ---- Stephen A. Douglas | 2 | 1,177,518 | 25.11 |
Answers:
- How should your party address the slavery issue during this campaign?We must make no further statements on slavery during this campaign, except that we believe the preservation of the Union to be paramount, and would consider any type of compromise Amendment on this issue once we're elected.
- What do you have to say about the merits of your running mate, Herschel Johnson?I'm proud to share a ballot with Herschel Vespasian Johnson of Georgia.
- 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?This party has no discernible platform or political positions on any issue. They are the carcass of the pro-slavery wing of the Whig Party, masquerading as saviors of the Union.
- How aggressively should your party attack the Southern Democrats and John Breckenridge in this election?We'll attack the Southern Democrats the same as any other opponents.
- 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?Anyone can see that we support this idea, but our main emphasis should be on other issues.
- What position should your party take on foreign immigration and nationalization in this election?Let's skirt this issue and attempt to focus our campaign on other things. There's not much for us to gain here.
- 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?This is the type of aggressive, expansive move by the Southern Democrats that led to the split in our party. Under no circumstances would I support the reopening of the Atlantic slave trade.
- Do you support the further expansion of the United States into Mexico, Cuba, or the Caribbean?I don't support the further expansion of the United States. We should be focused on the development of the territories that we have, and not on gaining new ones.
- 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?Absolutely I would. Not only would this prevent a potential war and preserve the Union, but it would remove slavery from the realm of political debate once and for all.
- 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?We've had too many competing votes and constitutions to make any determination about Kansas. We should not admit that state at this time, until there is more clarity.
- How much should your party emphasize its support of canals and infrastructure projects in this election?We are the Jacksonian Party, and there is no place in our platform for federal spending on such boondoggles.
- Is there a particular state that you would concentrate your efforts on during the final days of the campaign?I will remain in Illinois for the final week of this campaign.
- What is your opinion on the formation of fusion tickets in the Northern states to consolidate the anti-Lincoln vote?I will support any fusion tickets which can be organized, and I will withdraw my name from the slave state ballots. We must find a way to stop Lincoln.