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Regard for our Candidates

Policies, parties and personalities inspire American citizens to support or reject candidates. This was true in past elections and is certainly true today! Current media coverage provides the American people with great detail about candidates' lives, both public and private. How has this influenced our regard for candidates, today?

Many of our presidents experienced turbulent candidacies. Sometimes we marvel at the scandals and difficulties that surface during a campaign, and sometimes we just "love 'em."

Abraham Lincoln received a hand made chair and had songs (1, 2, 3, 4) written for him, just for being nominated. Conversely, his anti-slavery position aroused so much opposition toward the candidate as to cause Mr. Oliver Parker to write the following dire but prophetic prediction:

"...it will require on your part, if elected, the greatest vigilance and precaution to preserve, your life and health, and it is to that end, that I write, to give you due warning of what I fear."