Campaign Trail Results: Game #563384
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This Game:
- Year: 1860
- Player Candidate: Stephen A. Douglas
- Running Mate: Horatio Seymour
- Difficulty Level: Impossible
- 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 | 171 | 1,933,683 | 41.39 |
| ---- John C. Breckinridge | 65 | 923,464 | 19.77 |
| ---- John Bell | 62 | 655,555 | 14.03 |
| ---- Stephen A. Douglas | 5 | 1,159,388 | 24.82 |
Answers:
- To what extent do you plan to personally campaign in this election?It's a bold move, but I will campaign for the Democratic cause across the North.
- 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, Horatio Seymour?I'm proud to share a ballot with Horatio Seymour of New York.
- 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?Anyone who supports the Union is fine in my book, at least in comparison to the secessionist Southern Democrats.
- How aggressively should your party attack the Southern Democrats and John Breckenridge in this election?We need to make it perfectly clear that we have no use for this secessionist splinter group, and that we are a national party that truly represents Democracy in this country.
- Will you keep your name on the ballot in Oregon and California, even if doing so might divide the anti-Lincoln vote?I will take my name off the ballot in those states. We just need to make sure Lincoln doesn't win them.
- Did you make any deals to reward New York in your administration, to get Horatio Seymour to agree to serve as your running mate?That's ridiculous. Of course not!
- What should your party's position be on the raid of John Brown, late in 1859?We will condemn the activity of any such self-styled revolutionaries. John Brown was a fanatic and a lunatic.
- 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?It might be in our best interest to play down such rhetoric in this particular campaign. Our base in the North will vote for us anyway, and it's not as if we have any Southern support to lose at this point.
- 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?Of course we'll support this railroad, but there are other issues we should emphasize in this campaign.
- 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?We will attack the Republican embrace of immigration as opportunistic and disingenuous. It doesn't take a genius to figure out which party the Know Nothings joined.
- What is your position on the Supreme Court's Dred Scott v. Sandford decision?Our goal in this campaign should be to avoid any mention of the Supreme Court. There's not much to gain by talking about this decision.
- 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?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?This action is perfectly in line with my own doctrine. The will of the voters in Kansas clearly calls for admission as a free state.
- Is there a particular state that you would concentrate your efforts on during the final days of the campaign?I will make one final stop in New York to 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.