So Abe, the greatest Republican President

[floridablue]

Ran in 1864 on the National United party, and the Republican party did not exist on the ballot that election?

[Captain Hilts]

1. I'll admit to being confused by the parties of that era. I'd appreciate it if someone would explain

it to me in BBC Special English.

[KamaAina]

2. Well, yes and no

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1864

In the United States Presidential election of 1864, Abraham Lincoln was re-elected as president. Lincoln ran under the Republican banner against his former top Civil War general, the Democratic candidate, George B. McClellan, and the Radical Republican Party candidate, John C. Frémont. McClellan was the "peace candidate" but did not personally believe in his party's platform. Frémont abandoned his political campaign in September 1864, after he brokered a political deal in which Lincoln removed U.S. Postmaster General Montgomery Blair from office....

The Lincoln/Johnson ticket ran with the slogan "Don't change horses in the middle of a stream." Republicans loyal to Lincoln, in opposition to a group of Republican dissidents who nominated John C. Frémont, joined with a number of Democrats to form the National Union Party, to appeal to War Democrats; the new name vanished after the election. Johnson, however, never became a Republican.

[floridablue]

3. Saying Lincoln was not a Republican is like

saying Obama is not a citizen. About the same level of importance to me, which isn't very much.