He often didn't. In particular, it looked as though he would lose the 1864 election. That would have been tantamount to losing the war.
Because the North was angered by the war.
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).
the north was discouraged by bad war news- apex my homie
Yes. Through most of 1864, it looked as though Lincoln would lose the election because the North were not winning enough victories.
North Vietnam won the war.
Northern failure might drive the four border-states into the arms of the Confederacy. Britain and France might recognise the Confederacy and send military aid. War-weariness in the North could lose Lincoln the General election of 1864.
The reelection of Abraham Lincoln in 1864 showed that the war effort had turned in the North's favor. The election was between Lincoln and George B. McClellan.
because they died
The American's didn't lose the civil war because the North states were fighting the south states over whether there should be slavery in North America or not.
Lincoln was worried about winning the re-election in 1864. His fears were due to the protests people made concerning the Civil War and the anti-slavery movement.
actually students or fellow classmates out there the north won the war since they had more money from manufacturing and other goods than the south