Why is Abraham Lincoln so popular right now?

[LincolnToddFan]

The execrable (imo) Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Slayer series of books and movies has accomplished one good thing...it has made a new generation of American youth want to know more about the 16th president. I wish it was something other than as a ridiculous vampire hunter but that was/is a wildly popular franchise.

Whatever works.

I've been fascinated with him since I was a small child in Ohio, where Abraham Lincoln was taught like catechism in the public school system of the late 1960's. We were required to memorize the entire Gettysburg Address and parts of the Second Inaugural in the 4th grade and I can still recite huge portions of both by memory.

Along with Harriet Tubman and Pope St. John Paul II, Abraham Lincoln is one of the historical figures I really wish I had known.