During the Presidential election in 1860, the emerging Republican Party found support from a new generation of voters who helped push Abe Lincoln to victory. They were known as the “Wide Awakes,” because of their youth, enthusiasm, and torch-lit nighttime marches. “Now the old men are folding their arms and going to sleep,” said William H. Seward while campaigning for Lincoln, “and the young men are Wide Awake.”
They believed the future belonged to them, and not to the tired and corrupt figures of the previous decades.
Show you are woke, and know your history. Urge others to vote with this message of awareness.
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