Re: Help Wanted part II
Doyle, I am not trying to trivialize your question or go off topic, but if you ignore the 1850s-1860s - specific content in your original question and substitute the name "BHO" for "Lincoln," might BHO's election be found to have succeeded for the same, if not very similar reasons Lincoln's did 148 years earlier - sweeping rhetoric, seemingly visionary speeches, word pictres, things the people want to hear, etc.?