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Want to abolish the Electoral College? Maybe you didn't know...

that Abraham Lincoln received just 39% of the popular vote, but won the presidency by a landslide, thanks to the Electoral College.
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SW-User
Women and minorities weren't allowed to vote then. Lincoln supported a woman's right to vote. He would have won the popular vote if all citizens were created equal in his day.

I'll keep voting for Frank Zappa until the Electoral College is abolished. Fierce independent for life. Not going to register Republicrat just to make my vote count. It doesn't anyway.
ReaperofTime · 46-50, M
Lincoln was a complete farce. He didnt free slaves because it was right. He did it to keep British intervention from crushing the Union. He was also a latent homosexual.
BrakeIT · 56-60, M
True regarding women, although I'm not sure what you mean by minorities.
And as we also know, he supported the abolishment of slavery. The first Republican president elected to office.