cameron's political machine is trying to stop another group of republicans led by a guy named andrew curtin, running for governor. the cameron people have to stop with it. lincoln and david davis and some of his allies are riding letters, davis at one point does a tour and meets with weed, other new yorkers, meets with these people, all in part of an effort to make sure they keep their eye on the ball the ball on this case is electing lincoln. and putting aside whatever their personal issues are. you knew this was the outcome, right? i was doing my best to keep the suspense going here. so lincoln wins. it does indeed end up being lincoln and douglas in the north, breckinridge and bell in the south. and breckinridge was the lower south with his argument for late code. l wins the upper software there is less of that commitment to protecting slavery at all costs. and lincoln just stops douglas across the country sort of. he easily beats douglas in the electoral college. lincoln is up with 180 oleksuk volts, douglas is 12 but in fact in a lot of states they ran pretty close. a couple of things