You should. He lost the popular vote AND the electoral college and managed to WIN the election. He went to bed on election night CONVINCED he'd lost!
He was a Republican, and Democrats conceded the election to him in exchange for two things:
a promise that he would only serve 1 term. He did, and he stepped down, and Ulysses S. Grant won the 1880 election and served 8 years.
an end to reconstruction. Democrats preferred keeping their slaves to winning the white house and traded one for the other. A corrupt bargain that set black people back 100 years. Truly evil. The only way to get the votes in Congress to end reconstruction (the priority for Southern Dems) was to trade the presidency to get the votes for it.
You should. He lost the popular vote AND the electoral college and managed to WIN the election. He went to bed on election night CONVINCED he'd lost!
He was a Republican, and Democrats conceded the election to him in exchange for two things:
a promise that he would only serve 1 term. He did, and he stepped down, and Ulysses S. Grant won the 1880 election and served 8 years.
an end to reconstruction. Democrats preferred keeping their slaves to winning the white house and traded one for the other. A corrupt bargain that set black people back 100 years. Truly evil. The only way to get the votes in Congress to end reconstruction (the priority for Southern Dems) was to trade the presidency to get the votes for it.