that guarantees almost you're going to have a minority president;

大选的结果一定是少数派总统
that is, the one who wins is not

他虽最后赢得大选
going to win a majority.

但是不会赢得大部分的选民
And that's exactly what happened in this case.

这次选举正是这样的情况
Now Abraham Lincoln, the Republican,

而且当时共和党的亚伯拉罕·林肯
was not even on the ballot in ten Slave states.

在十个支持奴隶制的州内几乎一票未得
The Republicans weren't even

在南方腹地共和党的名字
put on the ballot in all of the Deep South.

甚至都不会出现在选票上
Lincoln carried all of the Northern states,

林肯赢得了所有北方州
and all of their electoral votes

除了新泽西州的三个地点之外
except three in New Jersey.

该收集的选票也收集到了
Breckenridge, the Southern Democrat,

南方民主党的布瑞肯里奇