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In the 1860 election, it was because the Democratic Party had split into two wings (North and South), so the Republican candidate was bound to win.

In the 1864 election, which he had expected to lose owing to war-weariness in the North, he was saved by timely battlefield victories in September 1864 (Atlanta, Mobile and Cedar Creek).

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