After a long hiatus, the SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Election Series is back…
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1876
Without hindsight, I would have voted for Hayes as the candidate of the Party of the Union and Abolition but in light of the “Compromise of 1877”, I’d have made a protest vote for the Greenback Party and its candidate Peter Cooper instead.