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We should point out that National Union wasn't a new party. It was the Republican Party re-named. GoodDay (talk) 19:37, 11 January 2009 (UTC)
Was it just the republican party? Since it included a democrat vice-presidential running mate, wasn't it really a coalition?203.184.41.226 (talk) 05:08, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
I just added some information about the number of total seats for the House and Senate in the 1864 elections, to give some context for the number of seats the party won. While doing this I noticed that that this article is inconsistent with our articles on the United States House of Representatives elections, 1864 and the United States Senate elections, 1864. This article says the National Union Party won 42 Senate seats, but the election article says "Republicans" won 39, "Unconditional Unionists" won 3, and "Unionists" won 1. Perhaps the combined Republicans and Unconditional Unionists equates to the National Union results, but that isn't clear from either article. The inconsistency for the House is worse. This article says 149 seats for National Union. The election article says 18 National Union, 136 Republicans. That doesn't add up at all. Unfortunately the results are not sourced in any of the three articles. I found a source that generally affirms the numbers in this article (although referring to the party as the Republicans instead of National Union) and added it, but the inconsistency still needs some resolution, preferably with high-quality sources. Placing this here and putting pointers on the other two talk pages because this article has the most edits and thus more likely to attract discussion. --RL0919 (talk) 20:08, 6 August 2011 (UTC)
What is meant by the statement that radical republicans thought Lincoln was "incompetent"? Does that simply mean lacking in competent, or is there some special meaning involved? Competence, or lack thereof, doesn't stop people being nominated for office!203.184.41.226 (talk) 05:10, 11 August 2012 (UTC)
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Greetings fellow editors! I recently added colors to Lifespan timeline of Presidents of the United States and it looks like the official color for the National Union Party (taken from #F8F9FA is a little too close to that of the Republican Party. The same issue is visible on List of Presidents of the United States. Would it be acceptable to change this color slightly, e.g. using the predefined "FireBrick" (#B22222) instead of the current "Crimson" (#DC143C)?
Current rendering | Crimson |
Republican Red | |
National Union Crimson | |
Proposed rendering | FireBrick |
Republican Red | |
National Union FireBrick |
Comments welcome. — JFG talk 18:42, 28 October 2016 (UTC)
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The term landslide election is subjective and it is more objective to describe the actual electoral results,
Furthermore, the phrase "electoral landslide" would seem to be a deliberate reference to Preince Reibus's description of Trump's electoral victory and suggests that Lincoln / McClellan lost the popular vote, which they did not.
Source for 1864 electoral vote results:
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/national.php?year=1864
Please stop inserting Trump propaganda into wikipedia entries about Abraham Lincoln, Rjensen. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:C24E:2000:1AD:CFF6:165A:F822 (talk) 18:27, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
@Rjensen:
1. You have moved the goalposts from your initial justification to "keep terms used in 1860s" to quoting a book published in 2011.
2. "A landslide" is not the term "electoral landslide" which was inserted in this wikipedia entry in April 2017, after Preince Reibus used the term on national television.
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=National_Union_Party_(United_States)&direction=next&oldid=772566897 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:C24E:2000:1AD:CFF6:165A:F822 (talk) 19:31, 26 January 2022 (UTC)
Further edit: Both instances of "electoral landslide" in Public Opinion Quarterly use the term in the context of saying an electoral landslide does not represent the will of the electorate, as can be read here:
https://archive.org/details/sim_public-opinion-quarterly_1941-03_5_1/page/56/mode/2up?view=theater&q=electoral+landslide — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2600:8807:C24E:2000:1AD:CFF6:165A:F822 (talk) 19:43, 26 January 2022 (UTC)