Marathon Pundit: (Video) Hillary wrongly says Lincoln was a senator from Illinois

Even more so, I assume, in Hillary Clinton's time, students in Illinois schools were well-verse in the life of Abraham Lincoln. Clinton was born in Chicago and grew up in northwest suburban Park Ridge.

Among the most important pre-presidential episodes of Lincoln's life were his debates with Stephen A. Douglas for the 1858 US Senate race. Douglas, not Lincoln, won that race.

But watch as Hillary Clinton--in Illinois no less--state that Lincoln was a senator from the Prairie State.