Board Thread:New on Alternative History/@comment-72.185.4.15-20130303025444/@comment-32656-20130306094028

I swear, J, it's like you're not listening.

Read my post again.

As for that quote, there is simply no truth whatsoever to that.

Douglas being elected would not have that effect. I can't emphasize that enough.

The two Democratic tickets were the result of political deadlock in the party. The original convention in Charleston couldn't come to a 2/3rds majority, needed to pick the candidate. After 57 votes and two weeks, still nothing, and they agreed to regroup in Baltimore two months later. Douglas was, fyi, far and away the leader at that convention, winning each and every ballot, with some southern support, by a large margin. Delegates sent were not all the same in Baltimore, and issue was taken with how it was resolved, leading to the southern delegates largely walking out in support of old delegates from Louisiana and Arkansas, rather than ones newly sent from those states. It was a simple procedural matter. Nothing more.

Not entirely accurate, Gal.