Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Breckinridge” in chapter 10 of John G. Nicolay, A Short Life of Abraham Lincoln, condensed from Nicolay and Hayes' Abraham Lincoln: A History:
...four pivotal States of New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Indiana, and Illinois.
It was quite certain that no Republican candidate could carry a single one of the fifteen slave States; and equally sure that Breckinridge , on his extreme pro-slavery platform, could not carry a single one of the eighteen free States.
But there was a chance that one or more of these four pivotal free States might cast its vote for Dou...
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