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Lincoln was the clear underdog when he became Douglas’s Republican opponent in the 1858 Senate race. Before the Seventeenth Amendment, state legislatures selected United States senators. Douglas and Lincoln competed to obtain legislators who would be pledged to vote for them. Lincoln challenged Douglas to a series of debates. Douglas agreed ...
The debates begin. Less than a month later, on August 21, 1858, Lincoln and Douglas climbed to a wooden platform in Ottawa’s downtown to launch the series of seven debates that each hoped would propel him to election as senator in November. The music and parades of the morning and early afternoon had ended, and the political banners were put ...
By the summer of 1858, however, Lincoln had emerged as the standard-bearer of the new Illinois Republican Party. In the election of that year, he ran again for the Senate, challenging the incumbent, Stephen Douglas (1813–1861), the author of the Kansas-Nebraska Act, to a series of debates.
Tommy Douglas - NDP ... Election Party Elected Members # of Candidates % of Popular Vote ... 1965 (November 8) - Turnout: 74.8 %: Liberal : 131: 265:
Oct 20, 2004 · The small, energetic, and buoyant Douglas had earned popularity and a secure Senate seat in recent years while Lincoln—brooding, melancholic, vulgar in speech, and awkwardly tall—had stagnated ...
The 1965 Canadian federal election was held on November 8, 1965 to elect members of the House of Commons of Canada of the 27th Parliament of Canada. The Liberal Party of Prime Minister Lester B. Pearson was re-elected with a larger number of seats in the House. Although the Liberals lost a small share of the popular vote, they were able to win ...
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Aug 6, 2019 · 2. They Got Crude, With Personal Insults and Racial Slurs. Though the Lincoln-Douglas Debates are often cited as a high point of civility in politics, the actual content was often pretty rough. In part, this was because the debates were rooted in the frontier tradition of the stump speech.
