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Voting for someone who has never held office before is one way. Voting against the ruling party is another way.
Stephen Douglas, who tried to put the slavery issue to the local vote in each new state. It just led to intimidation of voters, and proved that the slavery question would never be settled by peaceful debate.
The attempt to allow the people of each new state to vote for or against slavery. This sounded reasonable enough, but the violence and intimidation towards voters demonstrated that the slavery question would never be settled except by war.
A lot of bloodshed, as terrorists crossed into the state and intimidated voters. It was like a little curtain-raiser for the upcoming civil war, demonstrating that the slavery question could never be settled by rational debate, only by force.