Campaign Trail Results: Game #698475
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This Game:
- Year: 1860
- Player Candidate: Stephen A. Douglas
- Running Mate: Herschel Johnson
- Difficulty Level: Easy
- Winner Take All Mode?: No
- Game Played:
- LinseyBell
View overall results, or a specific state:
| Candidate | Electoral Votes | Popular Votes | Pop. Vote % |
|---|---|---|---|
| ---- Abraham Lincoln | 120 | 1,916,937 | 41.15 |
| ---- John C. Breckinridge | 86 | 909,737 | 19.53 |
| ---- Stephen A. Douglas | 50 | 1,162,328 | 24.95 |
| ---- John Bell | 47 | 669,006 | 14.36 |
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?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, Herschel Johnson?I'm proud to share a ballot with Herschel Vespasian Johnson of Georgia.
- How aggressively should your party attack the Republicans and Abraham Lincoln in this election?We'll attack the Republicans the same as any other opponents.
- 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'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?I will take my name off the ballot in those states. We just need to make sure Lincoln doesn't win them.
- 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?I'm sure people out there will make these attacks on their own initiative, but we shouldn't emphasize this too much.
- 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?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?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?There's nothing in this decision which contradicts my own ideas on slavery. Slavery can hardly thrive in a territory where the residents oppose the practice, regardless of the Court's abstractions on the issue.
- 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?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?I would need to see the details of these Amendments before I could take a position.
- 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?We should hold back on this kind of rhetoric, given the unusual nature of this year's election.
- 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.
- What is your position on the creation of land grant universities for secondary education?This strikes me, and many Democrats, as a potential waste of federal land and resources.
- Is there a particular state that you would concentrate your efforts on during the final days of the campaign?I will concentrate on Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio.