Had Lincoln been on the ballot on all states would it have been different? Maybe so.

Southern insistence that the slave system be extended or nationalized shattered the party to which Lincoln had belonged,the Whigs. A party associated with compromise over slavery. The Southern extremist helped create the new Republican Party, by driving white Midwestern farmers, the South's traditional allies, into a new alliance with the Whigs. Lastly, the angry defection of Southern Democrats from the national party in 1860 ensured that the Republicans would capture the presidency. It was the deed and words of the Southern political elite during the 1850's that made Lincoln President. The Southern Plantation owners without intending to, were responsible for the career of the man who would defeat their dream of Independence and free some millions of black men and women.