“Whaaaat difference does it make!!”
Lincoln was never a Senator. He lost his senate race to his arch rival Stephen Douglas.
DOH!
hmmmm....there are three possibilities for this blunder
1. She depended on really lousy proof-readers (indicates an inability to choose good staff)
2. She never read the book (indicating she's lazy about keeping up on things)
3. She read the book herself and didn't spot the error (indicating she doesn't know much US presidential history)
Any one of those three choices would put her light years behind Ted Cruz or Jeff Sessions, for example.