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I found this quote very interesting, especially since Lincoln was a Republican.

Such a great President.

What is your argument here, or what point are you trying to make?

I respect Lincoln, but don't make the comparison of what the Republican and Democratic parties of the 3rd quarter of the 19th century to what they are in the 1st quarter of the 21st. The Democratic and Republican parties were both at the beginnings of a transition that resulted with the end of the Whig Party. When the Whig party ended in the 1850's, the party separated and half went to each of the democratic and republican parties. Which made ideologies similar, but not the same. Fast-forward almost 150 years later and you have two parties that have very little in common.