Ron Davies,
FWIW, Tilden actually won the popular vote over Cleveland, if I recall correctly. (I was just a little kid at the time.) *g*
I think the election was thrown into the House Of Representatives or something like that. It was a very close and contested election, in some ways not unlike Bush v. Gore in 2000, and some say that Tilden was the rightful winner.

At any rate, the public as a whole was pretty evenly divided between the two candidates.