# SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Elections 1876

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**Category:** Politics & Elections\
**Created:** [December 25, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1876/708145 "2014-12-25T07:13:56Z")\
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**Author:** ![Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/q/f04885/32.png) [@Qin\_Shi\_Huangdi](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Qin_Shi_Huangdi)\
**Post date:** [December 25, 2014, 7:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/sdmb-retrospective-us-presidential-elections-1876/708145/1 "2014-12-25T07:13:56Z")

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After a long hiatus, the SDMB Retrospective US Presidential Election Series is back…

[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United\_States\_presidential\_election,\_1876](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.