1860 Election In Oregon

 The 1860 Presidential election had three parties in the running, for Oregon.....Republican (Lincoln), Democrat (Douglas), and Southern Democrat (Breckinridge).

There were roughly 15,000 votes across the state in this election.

Lincoln won....marginally by 250 votes (getting 5,344 votes).  Breckinridge came in second with 5.074.  So it was fairly close.

County-wise?  Lincoln took most of the coastal counties and more populated regions of the state.  Breckinridge took most of the eastern part of the state and SW section.  

The Constitutional Union Party did make an effort in running but barely took 250-odd votes.

So as 1864 came around?  Lincoln won with 53-percent of the vote (roughly 3,000 more people voting in 1864 than in 1860).

Lincoln's prime areas?  NW and SW parts of the state.  Democratic strength was in the central and eastern areas of the state.  

The President Douglas/1860 Election Win Scenario

 As the summer convention business heated up for the Democratic Party....it came to a point where no candidate could emerge out of the first convention.  Stephen Douglas, who had things lined up....failed.

A second convention was held roughly a month later, and Douglas secured the 'win', but out of this convention....a number of southern Democrats left and gathered at a near-by hotel, and decided to form a new party (the Southern Democratic Party).

This created a problem in the various states for the 1860 November election, and Douglas lost in a miserable way (division of votes).

But lets go back to the 2nd convention and say it failed, and no party division occurred.  

Douglass would have likely won the election....defeating Lincoln.

So here's the odd part of history.....Douglass would have arrived in DC, and become President, but likely met an untimely end (3 June 1861).  Typhoid Fever got him in the end.  

VP?  Herschel Johnson, former governor of Georgia.  He would have moved up and likely been the Democratic candidate in 1864's election....likely winning it and serving out to 1869.  

The 1860 Election In Tennessee

 Part of a series I'm doing....looking back at a history that we rarely discuss.

For the record, Tennessee was one of those states that didn't allow Lincoln on the ballot.

So there were three candidates: Breckenridge (Southern Democratic Party, the break-a-way group from the Democratic Party, Douglas (Democratic Party), and Bell (former Whig-Party-evolved into the Constitutional Union Party).  

Winner of the 1860 Tennessee vote?  John Bell won with 47-percent of the vote.  2nd place went to Breckinridge with 45-percent of the vote.  Douglas  took a dismal 7-percent.

There's only ONE single county in the state (far western region) where Douglass won the county vote.  

It's mostly a 50-50 situation on remaining counties between Bell and Breckinridge.  The strongest areas for Bell?  Along the North Carolina border.  

146,000 men showed up and voted in this election.

What happened in 1864?  Tennessee was not part of the Confederacy and was allowed to vote in the 1864 election. Candidates?  Lincoln and McClellan (the former general, who ran as a Democrat).  

Here's the odd part of the 1864 election....most ballot boxes around the state were destroyed by Confederates in the state.  What is generally believed....Lincoln had around 30,000 votes, while McClellan took 5,000.  This number?  Well....it's mostly created out of thin air by the Chicago Tribune newspaper.....so in a factual way, nothing about the results in the state for 1864 is believed.  I would add....the round-number business makes this also a bit of a joke. 

Yeah, pretty comical but that's history for you.  

My Idea

 The Biden Administration is telling banks....when new migrants show up and ask for loans.....the banks need to approve these (with minimum questions).

I sat and pondered over this.

So here is my plan.  I intend to dress up in ragged clothing.....getting a Mexican straw hat, and show up near the Texas-Mexico border (note, stay on the Texas side).  I will adapt a Peruvian name....Alejandro. I'll memorize forty phrases....most making little to no sense.  I'll act delightfully stupid and intellectually limited.  

The Border Patrol guys will give me some slip of paper....noting my name of Alejandro.  

Then I will get transported to NY City, and quietly walk into a NY bank....asking for a $20,000 loan.

Once I have the $20,000 in my hand....I'll take a cab to JFK Airport and fly home....thus disappearing.

A week will pass, and I will put on my Peruvian outfit once again....go to the Texas border, and rename myself as Carlos.  Same path.....this time maybe getting to Chicago, and getting $20,000 from a Chicago bank.

I'll repeat this for a year....making a grand total of $1.04-million.  I'll burn the Peruvian suit and fake IDs, and just quietly live out my life as the 'fake-Peruvian-American'.  

I think it'd make a great movie script, but I'd want Nicolas Cage to play me.