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Murljashka [212]
3 years ago
5

why did stephen douglas get the second most votes in the 1860 election but only got 12 electoral college votes

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erma4kov [3.2K]3 years ago
5 0
Because most of the voters were in the northern cities. though linconln won them, he only go on average 55% of the vote in each of the states that he won, and douglas took 40%, so he had a lot of the country, but no electoral votes
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