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[novapsyche]

"The election is a necessity," [Abraham] Lincoln said. "We cannot have a free government without elections; and if the rebellion could force us to forgo, or postpone, a national election, it might fairly claim to have already conquered us."

US 'may delay vote if attacked'

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[ytterbius.livejournal.com]

Lincoln was a Republican wasn't he? What the hell do they know? :)

[novapsyche.livejournal.com]

The Republicans of the 1800s were closer in ideology to the Democrats of today. Around the 1920s the Republicans experienced a huge shift: they started catering to the rich (those who benefited from the '20s boom).