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Were he alive today, would Abraham Lincoln be too ugly to lead the GOP?

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Were he alive today, would Abraham Lincoln be too ugly to lead the GOP?

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What would sink Lincoln nowadays would be his Kentucky twang (picked up while he was growing up there.) A year ago, I read the Gettysburg Address to my students in that accent and they were calling for me to stop it. Imagine a redneck for President, and that’s what folks would be hearing.