Back in Abraham Lincoln's day...........read the contemporaneous papers & look at some of the political cartoons from that time.  Lincoln was frequently called a "baboon" by the press, amongst other similar things.  If agenda-driven, slanted 'scientific' polls had ruled back in Lincoln's day as they do now, then Mr. Lincoln wouldn't have stood a chance.

It was only after his death that Lincoln achieved mythic status: and they built statues of him.

But of course: in the current politically correct era there are history revisionists who want to tear Lincoln's statues back down again.  Chances are, if Lincoln were alive today -- then the current crop would have followed the shining example of their ancestors and regularly referred to A. Lincoln as a "baboon", amongst other similar things.

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