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Everybody so first thing I want to talk about the

1864 election and the great four-part series that we have up on

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this election and all the little newspaper nuggets and how things aren't as clear as

they are today that, oh, everybody loved Lincoln.

No, as of August of that year as we know, Lincoln wrote his cabinet saying he probably would

lose the election. It's very close, even up to the election.

It's very close.

Even up to the end, there are small bits of hope for McClellan, who actually, although candidates

then didn't campaign, is actually the best candidate that Democrats

probably could have chosen and in certain states like I look at

Pennsylvania and Connecticut McClellan actually does very well versus 1860 for Democrats in improving their vote totals, and that's even after Atlanta.

The Battle of Atlanta, of course course is important and we raise questions

around that and we look at contemporary versions of it like when the news

arrived how it impacted the election because right before that it looked pretty strong for Democrats

especially as they increasingly were unifying around candidate

McClellan if not around a platform of what to do about the war.

And there was a lot of trouble for liking, people wanted to replace him.

Yes, they wanted to replace a sitting president on the ticket,

and possibly with his vice president Hannibal Hamlin or

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