Actually, seein' as we ahve kinda locked onto slavery and Jim Crow, I'd point out that the 1876 Hayes Tilden election was in many ways similar to the 2000 Bush-Gore debacle... Dems not wanting to certify Repub victiries and vices versa.. But unlike the Bush-Gore elction in the end everyone got something... A New York Repub, with fewer popultar votesa nd behaps even fewer "earned" electorial votes, got the presidency and Jim Crow got the Union outta his hair...

All of this make me wonder if the 2000 election wasn't the largest presidential debacle in our history since all the Dems got was a poke in the eye and nuthin' more...

As fir some other elctions that I find interesting the 1828 election of Andrew Jackson musta had the "beltway insiders" (haha) a little nervous...

And of course the 1948 Truman-Dewey with some newspapers printing that Dewey had won...

And then there's the most bizarre elexction of my life time, other than 2000, in 1968 when Bobby Kennedy, sho in my opinion would have beaten anywon out there being gunned down by a guy who had no apparent motive???? yeah, a big hmmmmmmmm???? And then LBJ rollin' HHH under the bus less than a month before the election by doing what HHH said he was going to do in stopping the bombing in SE Asia allowing Nisxo with his "secret plan" to squeek in...

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