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How did Lincoln 'balance the ticket' in the election of 1864?

He chose a vice president from a different political party


He and his opponent stood on opposite sides of a scale


He changed political parties before the election


He postponed the election until after the war


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Despite presiding over the bloody and tumultuous Civil War, President Abraham Lincoln never tried to postpone either the 1862 midterm elections (in which his Republican Party lost seats in Congress) or the 1864 presidential election.