John C Breckenridge President of the Unitred States

Most of the What-ifs for the 1860 focus on Douglas winning rather than Lincoln, but this great website link below proves it was morel ikely that Breckenridge could have won.
https://www.msu.edu/~sheppa28/elections.html
A change of just 73,984 votes in just eight states would have given him victory.
Had Breckinridge won those states, totalling 81 electoral votes, he would have won the election.
For comparison Douglas would have needed 15 states, totalling 140 electoral votes, and would have required a minimum of 141,524 voters to change their vote in order for him to have won the election.
What would have happended if Breckenridge had won.
 
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