Oops! - I seem to be confusing two elections too. What I said about Tilden winning the popular election and losing the Presidency is true, but it was a different election year.

It's true that, while Cleveland's opponents ran with the "Ma, Ma, where's my pa? Gone to the White House - ha ha ha!" jingle, the public didn't seem to care about his sexual peccadilloes enough to keep him from office. (I've been told that when his Press spokesman was asked if the rumors about his paternity were true, he replied, "Gentlemen, when we entered this horse race, we never said we were running a gelding.")