WI: Samuel Tilden Won the 1876 Presidential Election

Would a Democratic Tilden Administration (1877-1881) profoundly change the United States or would it essentially be a Cleveland Administration a few years early?
 
Would a Democratic Tilden Administration (1877-1881) profoundly change the United States or would it essentially be a Cleveland Administration a few years early?

I don't see a Tilden administration being all that different from the Hayes administration, but it would have set the precedent that the Democrats are viable again. Tilden probably gets re-elected, so there's that, before the Republicans return to power in the 1884 election. Short term there's very little change, but in the long term...maybe WJB isn't able to make the party Populist because it has a better winning streak. Perhaps a Labor Party is able to get a stronger hold over the electorate in this environment.

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Though there's a small, but non zero chance, that Grant and the Army say nope....and Tilden is barred from office which wouldn't be great.
 

Stolengood

Banned
Worse Reconstruction pull-out. Tilden nearly won on the backs of Southern Redeemers keeping black Republican voters from the polls through terror and intimidation; Sammy T. was a goddamn hypocrite.

I'm glad he lost, even if it did mean the end of voting rights for nearly a century. They would've been lost, either way.
 
Worse Reconstruction pull-out. Tilden nearly won on the backs of Southern Redeemers keeping black Republican voters from the polls through terror and intimidation; Sammy T. was a goddamn hypocrite.

I'm glad he lost, even if it did mean the end of voting rights for nearly a century. They would've been lost, either way.

I do find it kind of interesting that Hayes gets all the hate, when Grant kind of let the abuse happen on his watch.

Just eyeballing it, it seems that if the same number of Republicans turned out in the South in 76 as they did in 72...Tilden still definitely wins the popular vote and the electoral vote seems to be the same as many states had higher turnout in both parties between 72 and 76. I'll have to look into a way for adjusting GOP turnout based perhaps on the turnout change for Democrats.
 
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