Good morning.
It’s an election day of occasional rain – or snow – for Whitewater, with no accumulation expected, and a high of forty-two by the afternoon. We’ll have 10h, 4m of sunlight, and 11h, 4m of daylight. Tomorrow will be 2m shorter.
On this day in 1860, the United Staes elected Abraham Lincoln her 16th president. The New York Times reported the news to its readers:
The canvass for the Presidency of the United States terminated last evening, in all the States of the Union, under the revised regulation of Congress, passed in 1845, and the result, by the vote of New-York, is placed beyond question at once. It elects ABRAHAM LINCOLN of Illinois, President, and HANNIBAL HAMLIN of Maine, Vice-President of the United States, for four years, from the 4th March next, directly by the People.
The election, so far as the City and State of New-York are concerned, will probably stand, hereafter as one of the most remarkable in the political contests of the country; marked, as it is, by far the heaviest popular vote ever cast in the City, and by the sweeping, and almost uniform, Republican majorities in the country.
Google’s daily puzzle asks about film and pop culture: “What was the relationship of the winner of the 2009 Oscar for Best Director to the nominee for “Avatar” in the same category?”