sentences:  Republicans were confident after these party conventions, with Lincoln predicting that the fractured Democrats stood little chance of winning the election.Lincoln carried all but one Northern state to win an Electoral College majority with 180 votes to 72 for Breckinridge, 39 for Bell, and 12 for Douglas.Lincoln won every county in New England and most of the remaining counties in the North,
  but he won just two of the 996 Southern counties.