4. The Winner is Written in the Stars
If using the size and shape of the candidate’s heads to decide who to vote for wasn’t bizarre enough in the 1884 election, the election of 1860 had an equally strange way for you to decide who to vote for, their horoscopes.
In a four-way contest between Abraham Lincoln, John C. Breckinridge, John Bell and Stephen A. Douglas, the Broughton’s Monthly Planet Reader and Astrological Journal published four issues featuring engraved portraits of each candidate accompanied with their astrological charts. To help the reader make an ‘informed’ choice, they also added a reading of each man’s horoscope that would determine how successful a candidate might be.
So perhaps the fact that Abraham Lincoln is an Aquarius was the reason he won?
