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Apparently there was some confusion in Fox News' coverage of Hillary Clinton's proposal that she and Barack Obama compete in some Lincoln-Douglas debates.

I think there's an underexplored historical counterfactual in which the United States uses a different kind of electoral system -- like popular vote with a run-off -- that resulted in a Stephen Douglas presidency without any change in the underlying shape of public opinion."}],"editorialProject":null,"primaryCategory":{"__typename":"Channel","displayName":"Politics","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/","slug":"politics"},"reviews":[],"embeds":[],"authors":[{"id":"Author:729","displayName":"Matthew Yglesias","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/author/matthew-yglesias/","biography":{"default":"Matthew Yglesias is a former writer and editor at The Atlantic.","__typename":"Biography"},"socialMedia":[],"__typename":"Author","slug":"matthew-yglesias"}],"preview":null,"layout":"standard","secondaryByline":"","dek":"","url":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/lincoln-douglass/44606/","title":"Lincoln-Douglass","seoTitle":"Lincoln-Douglass","dateModified":"2010-05-03T20:18:59Z","datePublished":"2008-05-01T18:41:43Z","hasMeter":true,"primaryChannel":{"displayName":"Politics","__typename":"Channel","slug":"politics"},"shareImage1x1":null,"shareImage16x9":null,"shareImage4x3":null,"shareImageDefault":null,"shareImageSquareDefault":null,"shareImageLeadArt":null,"shareDek":"","shareText":null,"shareTitle":"Lincoln-Douglass","editorsNote":null,"leadArt":null,"narratedAudio":null,"narratedAudioImage":null,"fbiaUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/facebook-instant/article/44606/","canonicalUrl":"https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2008/05/lincoln-douglass/44606/","syndication":"ALL","shareImage2x1":null,"shareImageSmall":null,"channels":[{"slug":"politics","__typename":"Channel"}],"watsonInfo":{"keywords":["Barack Obama compete","Stephen Douglas presidency","Lincoln-Douglas debates","Hillary Clinton","popular vote","different kind","Fox News","public opinion","United States"],"__typename":"WatsonInfo"},"slug":"lincoln-douglass","grapeshot":{"segments":["gv_safe","shadow9hu7_pos_bofa-kwlist","gb_safe","pos_lexus_fy23","pos_safe_core","pos_safe_strict","gs_politics","gs_politics_american","gs_politics_issues_policy","gs_politics_misc","shadow9hu7_pos_customtopics","elections","gt_mixed"],"__typename":"Grapeshot"},"advertisingInfo":{"disableHouseAd":false,"__typename":"AdvertisingInfo"}}}

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