Just now, Keith Olbermann took the route I thought he would in defending his aggressive ignorance about Abraham Lincoln. I had said:

To give Olbermann the benefit of the doubt here, perhaps he isn’t counting those Senate races as “elections,” since pre-17th Amendment — what I call “the good ol’ days”) — Senators were not popularly elected, but instead chosen by state legislatures.
Even if that is the case, it tells us much about Olbermann that he’d be willing to so contort the truth to serve his prejudices. Either that, or he’s aggressively ignorant.

And sure enough, Olbermann then tweeted, “Lincoln lost 1 popular election, proof 8pm tonight.”

I responded to Olbermann, saying that, apparently, he thought there wasn’t any democracy in America until 1913. That brought out the fangs:

KeithOlbermann @DanFosterNRO What’s an election, Dan? A vote in a State Legislature, or a vote by citizens. Of course NRO wouldn’t KNOW.

Oh, but think it through, Keith! By your logic nobody’s ever been elected president of the United States.