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Why was Aaron Burr popular with the northerners?

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Hamilton recommended to Federalists that they support Jefferson because he was "by far not so dangerous a man" as Burr; in short, he would much rather have someone with wrong principles than someone devoid of any. ... On February 17, on the 36th ballot, Jefferson was elected.

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