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by LoveHistory » Sun February 20th, 2011, 5:45 pm
Very good article, thanks Ash. This part is right on "conditioned-to-be-reflexively-partisan" a lot of people don't even think, they just spout the most recent rhetoric of their choice of party. We're seeing a lot of that in Wisconsin right now (mostly people who won't bother to do any research and find out what's really going on either.
I don't think Lincoln could get elected in the 21st century. He was hated enough in his own time. Imagine the way people would dig into his past, his mental health, his wife's mental health. His Twitter feed might be interesting though.