I was watching a show on the history channel. If we think the political rambling and hate words is bad today. In Lincoln's time they would argue, roll up their sleeves and go outside and fist fight. One account a friend of Lincoln was getting clobbered so yup, he left the platform rolled up his sleeves and went at it .. Now I am not saying they should not tone it down. Heck yes they should, but it was even worse in the past history. Then again, Abe got shot also