Maybe you’re brimming with anticipation, but chance are you’re filled with dread in these final hours before the election.

Some rich people are frantically emailing their accountants looking for shelters ahead of a Biden victory.  Democrats expect to get run off the road by one of those flag-waving Trump Trains.  And Republicans are braced for whatever comes next… but they’re guessing... it won’t be pleasant.

We’ve never faced an election like this in our lives.  But the country has faced one.  And all it took was one honest man to make things right. 

1860.  Rumors spread across the south that Lincoln was half black.  Southern States refused to put him on the ballot.  Assasination threats came daily.  Southerners threatened to storm washington with troops/ Lincoln won with a mere 40 percent of the vote.  Next… the South threatened to disrupt the electoral college.  

Vice President John C Brekenridge of Kentucky - who’s family owned slaves… received all the official electoral votes.  He coulda trashed them and said “sorry.  Lost ‘em.  My bad”  And thrown the Republic into chaos.

But an honest man  Breckinridge opened… and counted those electoral votes… and with that act…. we got what many say was our greatest president ever. 

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