senior legislative assistance for policy advisor, joel, the late andrew davis, sophia, jonathan, kaitlyn, ashley. our office administrator jennifer. our communications director over the years, joel reed, phil davidson, the late chris danshaw. isaac, and our digital press manager grace. vaseyative directors john ii, john ratliff, jason day and alexander beckman. an chiefs of staff jason thai, jacqueline o'day, mike laughlin and eric. i thank all of them for the great work that they've done for me and for the people of the third district of illinois. i was going to start naming members that helped me get all the work done but i know think danger in this business of leaving anyone out so i just want to thank all my colleagues for the work that we have done together over the last 16 years. we had he district, what i would argue is hands down the best constituent service in the nation. whether it was related to social security, veterans benefits, military service, immigration issues, passport issues, and any, many more issues. , e staff included anthony fiorelli, dawn courtney, alvador difran

senior legislative assistance for policy advisor, joel, the late andrew davis, sophia, jonathan, kaitlyn, ashley. our office administrator jennifer. our communications director over the years, joel reed, phil davidson, the late chris danshaw. isaac, and our digital press manager grace. vaseyative directors john ii, john ratliff, jason day and alexander beckman. an chiefs of staff jason thai, jacqueline o'day, mike laughlin and eric. i thank all of them for the great work that they've done for me and for the people of the third district of illinois. i was going to start naming members that helped me get all the work done but i know think danger in this business of leaving anyone out so i just want to thank all my colleagues for the work that we have done together over the last 16 years. we had he district, what i would argue is hands down the best constituent service in the nation. whether it was related to social security, veterans benefits, military service, immigration issues, passport issues, and any, many more issues. , e staff included anthony fiorelli, dawn courtney, alvador difran

senior legislative assistance for policy advisor, joel, the late andrew davis, sophia, jonathan, kaitlyn, ashley. our office administrator jennifer. our communications director over the years, joel reed, phil davidson, the late chris danshaw. isaac, and our digital press manager grace. vaseyative directors john ii, john ratliff, jason day and alexander beckman. an chiefs of staff jason thai, jacqueline o'day, mike laughlin and eric. i thank all of them for the great work that they've done for me and for the people of the third district of illinois. i was going to start naming members that helped me get all the work done but i know think danger in this business of leaving anyone out so i just want to thank all my colleagues for the work that we have done together over the last 16 years. we had he district, what i would argue is hands down the best constituent service in the nation. whether it was related to social security, veterans benefits, military service, immigration issues, passport issues, and any, many more issues. , e staff included anthony fiorelli, dawn courtney, alvador difran

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lincoln and david davis and some allies, they're writing letters. davis, at one point, does a tour and meets weed, goes to pennsylvania and meets with these people, all as part of an effort to make sure they keep their eye on the ball. the ball is electing lincoln in this case, and putting aside whatever their personal issues are. you knew this was the outcome, right? so lincoln wins. it does indeed end up being lincoln and douglas in the north, bell and breckenridge in the south. breckenridge wins the lower south with his argument for the slave code. >> couple of things to think about in connection with this. one, if douglas, breckenridge and bell had got on the gether would they have beaten lincoln? well, the three of them together got 123 electoral votes to len con's 180, but would the votes have gone to lincoln instead. hard to say. we really can't know. there were efforts for them to get together. there were efforts to try to get a coalition together and the one who blocked it was douglas. he was not going to let the democratic party go in that

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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 to think about in connection with this. one, if douglas, breckinridge and bell had gone together with they have been lincoln? the three of them together got 123 elect

well, lincoln and david davis and some of his allies, they're writing letters and davis at ono point does a tour and meets with weed and meets with other new yorkers and goes to pennsylvania and meets with these people all as part of an effort to make pat sure they keep their eye on the ball. the ballon in this case is electing lincoln, and putting aside whatever their personal issues are. you knew this was the outcome, right? yeah. i was doing myght? best to kee it --do keep the suspense going here. okay. so lincoln wins. all right. it does, indeed, end up being lincoln and douglas in the nort and lincoln and brokeckenridge wins the south. andcode breckenridge wins the l south with the slave code.per st bell wins the upper south where 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.ncol lincoln endsn up with 180 electoral votes and douglas ha 12, but in fact, in a lot of tht states they ran pretty close. a couple of things to think abouta in connection wi