Campaign Trail Results: Game #803747
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This Game:
- Year: 1860
- Player Candidate: Stephen A. Douglas
- Running Mate: Horatio Seymour
- 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 | 171 | 1,871,762 | 39.58 |
| ---- John C. Breckinridge | 65 | 917,130 | 19.39 |
| ---- John Bell | 62 | 643,575 | 13.61 |
| ---- Stephen A. Douglas | 5 | 1,297,071 | 27.42 |
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?I had hoped that popular sovereignty would resolve the slavery issue, but the intransigence of the Southern bolters has convinced me otherwise. I now believe that slavery must not be permitted in any new state or territory.
- 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?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 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?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?Let's moderate our stance on the tariff issue a bit, given the peculiar nature of this election. Even President Buchanan appears to be changing his views.
- How much should your party emphasize its support of a Transcontinental Railroad in this election?I've been an advocate of a Transcontinental Railroad for the past decade. We need to make sure that is appreciated by the voters.
- How much should your party emphasize its support of a homestead act in this election?This has been a Democratic idea since the days of Andrew Jackson. We support it completely.
- 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?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?This is an abstract question at this point. We can barely hold this country together as it is, without addressing some theoretical expansion into the Caribbean.
- What is your position on the passage of “personal liberty laws” by various states, to flout the Fugitive Slave Act?I'm not going to make any statements condemning these laws during the present campaign. That would be a hasty, alienating move on our part.
- 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?Let there be no question that I support the preservation of the Union above all else.
- 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.