In United States election, before an election can be successfully declared won and finished, one of the candidate needs to win the higher number of the electoral votes irrespective of whether he or she won the popular votes.

Lincoln winning the northern states only guarantees that he would secure the majority is as a result of those northern states having the majority of the electoral college votes ascribed to them irrespective of the size and population of those states.

<em> Hence the reason Lincoln won with a margin 212–21 in the electoral college votes.</em>

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What political, economic, and social shifts occurred in the Soviet Union during the Cold War?​

What political, economic, and social shifts occurred in the Soviet Union during the Cold War?