Trump Took For Granted “The Bayonet Vote,” And It May Have Cost Him The Election

Article by WN.Com Correspondent Dallas Darling It is difficult for people to believe that President Abraham Lincoln was nearly defeated in his reelection attempt in 1864. If not for the “bayonet vote,” laws allowing soldiers to cast absentee votes from military camps, Lt. General George B. McClellan, Lincoln’s former commander of the Army of the Potomac and a pro-peace candidate, was expected to win. The war-weary North was tired of a “rich man’s war” and draft riots, the poor forced to sacrifice their sons. Lincoln needed votes from soldiers stationed far from home, and they delivered. They voted overwhelmingly for their commander-in-chief instead of two other civilian candidates or a...