The Presidential Election of 1876
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The Presidential Election of 1876 remains the most hotly contested campaign in the nationĘs history, even more so than the Election of 2000. The similarities between the two elections are many ū in both, the candidate who won the popular vote lost in the electoral college, and in both the state of Florida was central to the challenge. However, although the election of 2000 was thrown into the courts, the campaign of 1876 ultimately relied on an extra-constitutional commission that determined the final apportionment of electoral votes. The Democrats in 1876 were hungry for a victory. They had not won a presidential election since James Buchanan in 1856 and had been out of power for 16 years to the 2 term Lincoln and Grant administrations. To break this string, they turned to Samuel Tilden. Tilden was a reform-minded Governor of New York who had gained fame by breakin
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