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Every four years we hear that “this is the most important election in our history,” but what happened in the election of 1860 that took the country into a civil war? Explore the issues to understand why Delawareans didn’t vote for Abraham Lincoln and discover how he won despite not receiving a single vote in ten states. Old State House Site Supervisor Gavin Malone will take you back more than 160 years to the event that historian Gary Gallagher described as “the most fateful election in US history.”