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Lincoln Footnote

By Steve Inskeep

Published November 3, 2002 at 12:00 AM EST

Host Steve Inskeep reflects on another Election Day, 1860, and Abraham Lincoln going to the polls. (2:30)

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Steve Inskeep is a host of NPR's Morning Edition, as well as NPR's morning news podcast Up First.

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