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Historians tend to look at McClellan's ascension to the presidency as foreordained; after swiftly taking the rebel capital, crushing of the rebellion, and restoring of the slaveholding states to their places in the Union without any kind of revolution, he was a national hero. With explosive personal charisma, the unified support of the West, the South, the army, and the lower North, and the popular slogan that Lincoln started the war and McClellan ended it, the victorious General-in-Chief swept into the White House in the first step of a lightning political career, and became the first president since Jackson to serve two terms.

Is there any realistic way to keep McClellan out of the White House in 1864, and what would be the likely effects of a second term for Lincoln, or a Fremont presidency?
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