Voter fraud, suppression and partisanship: A look at the 1876 election

With nine days left until Election Day, many Americans hope the race finishes smoothly - unlike the disputed election of 1876. As the United States celebrated the centennial of the Declaration of Independence, a heated competition between Republican Rutherford B. Hayes and Democrat Samuel Tilden was rife with accusations of voter fraud and suppression. Mo Rocca speaks to historians about how the tight race was eventually decided.
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[@MattPerk7]

"An election that, we certainly hope, goes far more smoothly than the disputed election of 1876..." That didn't age well.

[@3seven5seven1nine9]

So far it is

[@darkchocolate3390]

That election was literally decided days before Inauguration. The 2020 election has already been decided....Trump and his camp are losing lawsuits left & right and are just delusional.

[@lynx7631]

To agree with the first two guys: this election has been a lot more peaceful than the one in 1876. It wasn’t precedent-setting at all.

[@MattPerk7]

If what Sidney Powell is alleging ends up becoming a thing, it'll get ugly.

[@darkchocolate3390]

@@MattPerk7 Trump's lawyers claim they have voter fraud when on TV, but when they're in the courts they're awfully silent with their evidence....I wonder why 🤔

[@Marklloret950]

President Hayes is the most popular US president in Paraguay. There’s a province (Presidente Hayes) named after him, it’s capital is Villa Hayes, plus a soccer club. In 1877, he settled a territorial dispute between Paraguay and Argentina, in favor of Paraguay who had lost a war a few years before.

[@cliffordnewell2445]

Far out. I knew Hayes must have done something good.

[@hbowman108]

The turnout was so high in 1876 that in some places it exceeded the number of eligible voters.

[@grumpyoldmac]

Ditto.....2020

[@P.Harmony]

That sounds familiar

[@leahvogel5527]

Cue the wannabe statisticians who think it happened this year

[@goinggoinggone535]

@@grumpyoldmac Not true, there is absolutely no case in the entire 2020 election of votes being higher than ELIGIBLE voters. There are a few cases of votes higher than REGISTERED voters because some states allow same-day registering, so comparing voting numbers to voter registration rolls prior to election day itself gives a false sense of an irregularity.

[@MrTrackman100]

@@grumpyoldmac Be real!

[@gamingtonight1526]

The worse thing that has happened to Western politics in the last 30 years, is that voters now just look at the leader in terms of their personality, rather than the policies of the party.

[@xiphactinusaudax1045]

*worst, and I also think people vote just on party, sometimes barely knowing much about the candidate's personality

[@degromfan]

@@xiphactinusaudax1045 Biden showed that this year. People voted for him just because he was a Democrat.

[@lamaripiazza5226]

@@degromfan No people voted for him because he wasn’t Trump

[@degromfan]

@@lamaripiazza5226 that's what I meant.

[@lamaripiazza5226]

@@degromfan Oh ok

[@johndanielson3777]

The 1876 election makes the 2000 election look weak

[@timothyhenson8188]

2020 out does them both

[@henrylister5530]

@@timothyhenson8188 well no

[@Ryan-fs5sk]

An argument can also be made for the 1824 election.

[@DiveEntertainment47]

@@timothyhenson8188 Absolutely Not

[@jumpingspider7105]

@@henrylister5530 The "well no" didn't age well

[@ZhangtheGreat]

Hayes is actually one of the more underappreciated presidents. He pulled a move that was political suicide at the time: he vetoed an anti-Chinese bill that passed through Congress from mass hysteria of anti-Chinese sentiment. He knew his veto would mean he didn't stand a chance running for re-election, so he didn't, but he stood firm on his principles rather than cave to mob mentality. Sadly, his move wound up being all for naught, as Congress passed the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act after his presidency.

[@epicspaceship2161]

Dude, he pulled out Federal Troops who oversaw the Southern States, effectively ending Reconstruction which led to Jim Crow Law for the next 70 years and began sowing the division we see today. Yeah, not under appreciated.

[@wonderbread7327]

@@epicspaceship2161 he didn’t pull them out it was a compromise, if Tilden was elected he would have done it and worse

[@blofeld39]

@@wonderbread7327 EXACTLY. Tilden getting into office after Grant had helped secure the rights of freedmen would've been exactly like Trump getting in after Obama.

[@cardinalhistory6045]

@@epicspaceship2161 How, exactly, could any president have maintained a federal military presence in the south?

[@CK-iv1lq]

@@epicspaceship2161 That was gonna happen anyway and there was nothing Hayes really could have done about it. It was a matter of when, not if.

[@iamsonnysoprano]

Isn’t that funny they talk about this and here we are?

[@brentonburbank4320]

I was thinking the same thing hummm how long have they been planing this fraud of an election

[@opesorryboutthat]

@@brentonburbank4320 Yeah buddy CBS sunday morning played a vital role in stealing an election

[@crestfallenwarrior8435]

Because they knew what was going to happen

[@woodduck2178]

Brenton Burbank they did this because the election was coming up and this is an interesting election

[@fuzzymaiden1]

HISTORY REPEATS ITSELF... thats why we dont BURN BOOKS or tear down statues (democrats/Blm/antifa. ...🤬) we need to keep a recird of everything even the BAD STUFF abd be able to refer back to it or learn from it!

[@deadraider420]

It’s Nov 7 2020... and here we go again.

[@fuzzymaiden1]

Yep! 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@kaigaga488]

Well folks the 2020 election about to be a hot mess.

[@goognoog392]

Wait until the mandatory Covid vaccine Democrats are pushing in the US, is rolled out worldwide, the true Mark of the Beast. Doctor's report:- www.bitchute.com/video/0j5B3qkMwfvi/

[@kaigaga488]

@@goognoog392 are you sure you have the right comment?

[@goognoog392]

@@kaigaga488 Check Microsoft patent WO2020 06 06 06. Trading human body data as currency. We ARE currency to globalists who are doing everything possible to take over the US in these elections. They want us to be trading material, not free thinking humans. Check the Covid vaccine report it connects the dots.

[@nitsukoson]

@@goognoog392 You’re showing signs of schizophrenia, you should get help from a family member or close friend. Seek medical treatment!

[@MsColetha]

Biden and Harris won

[@WestTNConfed]

Who's watching after the storming of the capitol today? Welcome to 2021 🙄

[@adamonis6052]

Hi

[@retroguy9494]

@@adamonis6052 "There were democratic newspapers with headlines 'march to Washington to install Tilden as president'!" Sound faintly familiar? And yet, the press, never disappointing in their muck throwing made it seem like this never happened before.

[@lightyagami3492]

@@retroguy9494 at least this news segment was showing the truth about american history 🤷

[@retroguy9494]

@@lightyagami3492 Yes it was!

[@loganm2766]

Trump supporters were in the right jan 6th. The election was stolen like a communist country

[@nicolerenfrow2746]

Who's here on December 14, 2020

[@fuzzymaiden1]

🖐 HERE!

[@shadowzsshorts6882]

16

[@somebodyiguess5969]

December 23

[@kyleyoung690]

JAN 13

[@abrahamlincoln8037]

16 March

[@domg.6459]

I love Mo Rocca!!!

[@karenwaddell9396]

Cannot stand jane pauleys voice. I skip over her intros.love mo

[@jdub3901]

Wow, this has not aged well...

[@luisesparza920]

This sounds Exactly like what’s happening in today’s politics

[@rebelfriend6759]

Imagine how different today would be if Reconstruction didn't get shut down

[@uniinvestments]

A new way to suppress the black vote! Stop counting...call out Atlanta, Detroit and Philadelphia

[@scp7802]

@@uniinvestments Are you saying to stop counting votes in cities where the African American population is very high? That's suppression right there. But I agree, stop counting, Biden already won all of those states.

[@MsColetha]

We would be a great nation.

[@blofeld39]

Tilden would have shut it down anyway.

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

Walked into the elementary school up the block yesterday to cast my ballot. Brought in the barcode I was mailed the other day. The lady at the desk scans it and says "Looks like you already voted". Me, standing there with my ballot in hand.

[@goognoog392]

Wait until the mandatory Covid vaccine Democrats are pushing in the US, is rolled out worldwide, the true Mark of the Beast. Doctor's report:- www.bitchute.com/video/0j5B3qkMwfvi/

[@deadraider420]

@@goognoog392 so glad Biden won and science will over take religions fear tactics.

[@springranch1384]

@@goognoog392 So glad I've lived long enough to see generations of you hysterical idiots come and FADE OUT. All of you have one thing in common: you think what you are saying is oh so important, and it's drivel. My advice to you: 1). go to the Bible YOURSELF and find, then write out the scripture each and every time the word LOVE is included; 2) FOLLOW the numerous scriptures, 3) STOP following what fear- and hate- mongers tell you is important. STUDY THE WORD YOURSELF. THINK FOR YOURSELF. FOLLOW THE WORD YOURSELF.

[@tanyl1]

You should have been allowed to vote provisionally. After election day, any errors could have been resolved.

[@jacobandmore3915]

Rutherford Birchard Hayes is one of the most underrated presidents ever: he continued lots of Grant’s civil rights policies, he continued Reconstruction and helped it end on a good term for the time, and the Compromise of 1877 (as they mentioned)

[@user-qj8pc4dv7g]

Reconstruction equaled de-construction in reality. It pauperized the South for a century and initiated racial strife deliberately. BOOK: 'THE TRAGIC ERA" Written by Bowers, published in 1929.

[@williamgregory1848]

“An election that we certainly hope goes far more smoothly than the disputed election of 1876.” Yeah… about that.

[@MR-xl5ni]

Seems like we are a society moving backwards. American public must become more educated in all fronts including politics. We are tax payers. Let us not drop money into the politicians' buckets blindly.

[@cynthiacopland8634]

The Southern states were put in charge of reconstruction? That could not be more tragic

[@retroguy9494]

Look around you. Its the southern states that STILL wield all the power in Congress (as well as some of the Bible belt midwestern states). Not the more populated educated progressive states on the east and west coasts. Where do you think old Mitch is from? One would think we would have learned in 140 years. But nope!

[@HVACSoldier]

@@retroguy9494 The reason WHY we have a bicameral legislature instead of a unicameral legislature is to protect the small states from the big states and vice versa. If BOTH houses were based on population, then the urban cities would dictate everything.

[@HVACSoldier]

@@awzomeman100 How so?

[@metallic_alek1510]

This was literally foreshadowing the 2020 election omg

[@hardroxxx5923]

His words at 6:00 is similar to Trump calling for his supporters to march to Capitol hill........

[@retroguy9494]

And yet the press, never disappointing, made it seem like this was the first time in our history ONE MAN did something like this.....sigh.

[@johnlocke4695]

No

[@chicknernberg9673]

It's a shame, though, that a lot of younger folks have no idea that the Southern Democrats of that time period are now Republicans. Once the Civil Rights Act of 1964 was passed, Southern Democrats split off into the American Independent Party - who put Alabama Governor George Wallace up for President. Wallace even carried some states in the 1968 Election. Once they saw that party was going nowhere, they were welcomed into the GOP ranks, where they still reside today. That is how all the Southern States that were once staunchly Democrat states are now quite Red.

[@beavercontrol1743]

for real and when you bring this up a lot of ignorant people say that its fake

[@lizhall2961]

Fascinating! May we constructively learn from history so not to repeat its mistakes.

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

Don't hold your breath as long as liberals are still crawling along the sidewalk.

[@iEatMunsters]

And republicans limping towards their trash can homes

[@goognoog392]

Wait until the mandatory Covid vaccine Democrats are pushing in the US, is rolled out worldwide, the true Mark of the Beast. Doctor's report:- www.bitchute.com/video/0j5B3qkMwfvi/

[@SteveSmekar-ll6ln]

@@iEatMunsters at least we will be free American people. As opposed to liberals most of which will be in jail or dead.

[@lukesky8274]

The turnout was so high in 1876 that in some places it exceeded the number of eligible voters.

[@cityhawk]

Of course it would come down to Florida. The more things change, the more things stay the same.

[@shootMEshootME1]

if history is Repeating Itself how many rights are we going to lose

[@stevegoldson67]

If the far left gets their way, a lot of them.

[@lestergillis8171]

I think this is why Rutherford B. Hayes was commonly referred to as "His Fruadulancy".

[@basilmarasco1975]

And why he pretty much could not run for re-election.

[@jeremyfajman9228]

Well that opening aged well

[@DwayneIsK1NG]

Exactly what I was thinking 😂. She spoke that into existence 💀

[@janeldykstra2329]

Actually what happened was that Gore called Bush and conceded. Later, Gore called Bush back, saying that he changed his mind.

[@kevinmorris3200]

Then when everything was finally settled, Gore called Bush again to concede and assured him he would not change his mind again.

[@albinjohnsson2511]

Only in America is a turnout of 82 % extraordinary lol.

[@darkchocolate3390]

This was the last election when black people could somewhat vote until like the 1960s.

[@opesorryboutthat]

82% turnout is higher than average for most democratic countries

[@retroguy9494]

@@darkchocolate3390 And again, thanks to the southern states trying to prevent poor blacks from voting, part of the voting rights act of 1965 was struck down by the Supreme Court making it more difficult for them to vote again!

[@ldhproductions112]

In 20 year there’s gonna be a vid like this for 2020

[@kylew.4896]

Lol sure pal

[@GustavoRodriguez-ld9il]

Can someone please get some cc on this video because I need my computer to be quiet in certain places.

[@Micah98134]

Get a headset that plugs into your PC, or better yet, they come in Bluetooth

[@noldaker]

Thank you for producing this piece. I've been writing/producing (hooked on) Tilden since 1993 after learning about him in an old dusty Congressional book in New Haven fed library. Found it strange a Democrat (Tilden while NY governor) slashed taxes in half and believed in efficient government. BTW - Tilden accepted the commission, but never conceded his Presidency.

[@dakelei]

I'm quite surprised this hasn't been discussed more often.

[@kataisa3]

It's not discussed by most media news because they want the public ignorant of the facts: the Democrats stole the election and ended Reconstruction.

[@larrybaldwin5919]

@@kataisa3 Your kidding,Right?? Hayes Lost pure and simple

[@retroguy9494]

@@larrybaldwin5919 But he should NOT have. Just Gore should not have lost in 2000.

[@57highland]

​@@kataisa3If the Dems stole the election, then why did Democrat Tilden concede? And since Hayes was sworn in as president, how was it that the Dems ended Reconstruction? Why did the Republicans sell out the black people in the South?

[@333crt]

At least Tilden and Gore had the grace and patriotism to concede.

[@huanlecongquoc957]

Yeah, coincidentally, they’re both Democrats…

[@idkwhatsgoingon4584]

​@@huanlecongquoc957 Tilden is far different than today's Democrats

[@stephendavis6066]

Gore relied on the integrity of the Supreme Court which we can note from history is fallible and has been further contorted by unethical republican partisan politics. They win, the country loses..if you don't vote, you tacitly support such activities.

[@Prauwlet213]

"an election that, we certainly hope, goes far more smoothly" JINXED IT.

[@SiVlog1989]

Tilden was quoted as saying, "I can retire to public life in the consciousness that I should receive from posterity the credit of having been elected to the highest office in the gift of the people without any of the cares or responsibilities of the office". He is the only losing candidate to win the popular vote with more than 50% of the vote

[@blofeld39]

He was a monster.

[@magiccitymelkite6161]

@@blofeld39 Why?

[@blofeld39]

@@magiccitymelkite6161 Because he knew who his supporters were, and condoned them implicitly -- the people who were murdering black voters in the South to give him the election, or as close to it as he came.

[@magiccitymelkite6161]

@@blofeld39 I don't know, he was a founding member of the Barnburners, an anti-slavery faction of New York's Democratic Party, and he managed the anti-slavery third-party presidential campaign of former Democratic President Martin Van Buren in 1848 for the Free Soil Party, an alliance of Conscience Whigs(as opposed to the pro-slavery Cotton Whigs) and Barnburner Democrats. He had a reputation as a moderate abolitionist, who supported a gradual abolition of slavery in order to avoid succession, civil war, and bloodshed, not unlike the position that Abraham Lincoln ran for President on in 1860, even though the South automatically assumed Lincoln was a Radical Republican, he actually ran as a moderate. Rutherford B. Hayes, who many say is just as responsible for what came out of the Compromise of 1877 as Tilden, was even more of an abolitionist prior to the civil war than either Lincoln or Tilden, he helped to organize the underground railroad and advocated for the civil rights of blacks once they arrived in the North. I think people too easily attach the motives and actions of other Republicans and Democrats to Hayes and Tilden and fail to realize that a lot of promises were made to both of them concerning the protection of rights for blacks in the South and those promises were not kept.

[@blofeld39]

@@magiccitymelkite6161 The Blairs were Barnburners, too, but you see how quickly they soured on the whole "equal rights" thing as soon as the war was almost over.

[@AbrahamLincoln4]

It turns out people were more Civil back in 1876 than 2020 looking back on this 5 months later in 2021...

[@springranch1384]

Fight it though we may, History seems to be a giant pendulum.

[@ValleyoftheRogue]

Despite the rocky start, Hayes actually had a lot of integrity. I believe he was the one who started the civil service system.

[@jamesk370]

I believe it was Chester Arthur, actually.

[@hotshot8135]

He fired Chester Arthur as a way to help reform the spoils system. Ironically, it was Chester Arthur who got rid of it officially

[@evanwinkler2434]

@@jamesk370 Chester Arthur was the one who succeeded, but Hayes was the first to try.

[@wileyjohnson5681]

More like the convict leasing system.

[@chrisfinch8637]

Something to learn about, in past elections of American history.

[@nghtwtchmn129]

It has often been reported that Richard Nixon decided for the good of the country not to dispute the outcome of the vote in Texas and Illinois in 1960, with some historians suggesting that the experience left him determined never to lose again. And yes, I am aware that the extent of voter fraud in 1960 is still widely debated.

[@enriquemunoz746]

This is the America Don the con wants to bring back!

[@tcbvgames]

3:40 82% voter turnout! Voting for two "mediocrities"!

[@noneofurbusiness5223]

82% of 1/2 population. :(

[@SiVlog1989]

That description of either candidate "being very aggressive, really wanting the Presidency for selfish reasons," bearing in mind this was posted just nine days before the 2020 Presidential Election, it was in retrospect a foreshadowing of Trump reacting to the fact that he was losing the 2020 election

[@jakes3799]

Imagine if Trump had been running in place of either of those two candidates. Can you imagine the mess?

[@DimJongUn]

I hope to God this doesn't happen in 2024.

[@ebarteldes]

Little did they know that 2021 was about to happen

[@Quarren_]

oh geez I never thought it happened before

[@loganm2766]

Its about to happen again this year. 5 states contesting the election with audits

[@vccstudents]

We are more divided now than ever before. My father died recently, nine years after my mother. He picked a great time to go out.

[@TonysMusic1974]

This sounds vaguely familiar . . . .

[@saidufofanah2210]

3 states were not certified in 1876, Every state is certified in 2020

[@ojjuiceman]

The things they don't teach you in american history in high school. The whole reconstruction period is a chapter or two. It's like they are purposely trying to exclude this information

[@CJ87317]

Well, to be fair there is a whole lot of fascinating stuff that is barely covered....even in eras that ARE covered. I mean one could probably spend a whole semester on any 20 years instead of a semester covering 150 years.

[@ojjuiceman]

@@CJ87317 yeah they started breaking it down one year pre 1860s and the next year post 1860s but I think you only need one so most people don't actually learn our history

[@CJ87317]

We had to do both.

[@retroguy9494]

When I went to school back when dinosaurs roamed the earth and we read by candlelight, we were lied to big time. It was the age of the great America who could do no wrong. We were never told that the Pilgrims actually stole from the Indians and they were forgiven and fed by them. We were never told about elections like this one or how Kennedy stole the election in 1960. We weren't told how we won the revolutionary war and the war of 1812 by not abiding by the rules of war at the time. We weren't told about how we broke our treaties with the American Indians and how they only attacked after we threatened them. We weren't told of the horrors of killing women and children in Vietnam (granted no text books were written yet about it as Saigon had just fallen like 3 years beforehand). I can still remember my 8th grade social studies teacher telling us "the only thing you need to remember about Vietnam is that it is a disgrace to America because its the only war we ever lost."

[@CJ87317]

It's not clear that Kennedy stole the 1960 election -- there's also evidence the GOP cheated in Illinois for instance. As far as "not abiding by the rules of warfare" of the era, that's one of those grossly over stated arguments. For one, the British were well versed in fighting guerilla wars -- that's what the French and Indian War had been, which they won about 15 years before the Revolution. The Brits very well knew how to fight and win such a war.

[@fundude4566]

Watching this now hmm fascinating 🧐

[@saint6563]

"Those that fail to learn from history... "

[@retroguy9494]

Are doomed to repeat it

[@alyssaplayz6646]

i have always been terrified of rutherford

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

Ahhh yes 1876, I remember that one. Was pretty, well, interesting

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@Brandon C. it’s also South of North Carolina

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@Brandon C. I think because W. Harding was more conservative and they appealed to Southern Conservative Democrats. And of course F. Roosevelt and L. Johnson had a huge Coalition of support from all political spectrums.

[@hottafyah663]

All of it Sound just like 2020!

[@keithhyttinen8275]

Trump lost. But his massive ego won't allow reality to take its course.

[@redact2186]

@@keithhyttinen8275 nope. President Trump won. Accept reality.

[@ramofusang390]

Interesting to learn about this election. I live in Tilden's hometown in Upstate NY

[@barbaraball8123]

History does repeat itself

[@neilfeinberg7825]

After Buchanan, Tilden would have been the second bachelor president!

[@samueltildenbio1876]

Just seeing this...Good piece.

[@antdell8730]

This episode did not age well.

[@jeffpetrie7744]

Wow. The ED of the Hayes museum wore jeans for her interview with CBS Sunday Morning.

[@gabesegun7966]

Not Rushmore material 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁 😁And that guy looks like he came back from 1876 with the beard

[@miscellaneousyoutube5399]

6:25 that's what I'm like right now during the 2020 election cycle

[@fuzzymaiden1]

GET IT SETTLED! 😆🤣🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

I keep forgetting that democrats were conservative and republicans were liberal back then lol

[@user-xd4rs6vr4n]

Democrats were obsessed with racial identity politics & cheating back then as they are now. Republicans are obsessed with rules & strictly legal equality under the law then as now. What switched is Dems went from pro-white propaganda to pro-multicultural propaganda. Republicans are now called racists for opposing things like affirmative action that involve racial favorship. The Dems just switched from pro-white to pro-multi culti, everything else is basically the same.

[@braedonshelton2305]

Haha, there’s no bias in this statement at all. Republicans suck just as much as Democrats (probably more).

[@PremierCCGuyMMXVI]

@@user-xd4rs6vr4n no not really. Democrats are a lot more liberal and republicans are conservative. I’m a democrat but I would have been a republican personally back in the day

[@tanyl1]

@@user-xd4rs6vr4n Affirmative action is racial favoritism. But White folks having all power and authority is the natural order of things because, as a group, you're just smarter and have worked harder as a people. Is this what you're suggesting? Racism and the systematic oppression and exclusion of people of color has had no impact on today's United States? Or, are you just saying that racism didn't exist or wasn't as bad as the Democrats like to say? I'm asking because I don't see any kind of historical foundation for your statement.

[@dravidia9593]

@@user-xd4rs6vr4n Lmao if that's the case then why did Lincoln (who was one of the founders of the Republican party) read Karl Marx's writings and wrote to him? Teddy Roosevelt literally imposed Anti-trust laws on big monopolies which is something that today's GOP wouldn't do since they give huge tax cuts to the top 1%.

[@karenwaddell9396]

IMO. This was also when Custer was defeated and was impetus for Indian ‘eradication.’ News came to the convention of clusters defeat and thus people were all trying to get retribution. Does there always need to be some group of people to disparage.

[@DurandTheRapper]

Here because I'm from Fremont Ohio

[@leondillon8723]

1:01)1876 people were still paying for the war. Federal occupational licenses and business taxes.Pool hall owners paid a dollar a year for a table. Same for a bowling lane.Around 1903, Congress approved pensions for living US vets. A "Gold Rush" started. Girls as young as 12 years married men old enough to be their great-grandfather. The widows collected pension money for at least 100 years after the War of Northern Aggression ended, August 1866.

[@VisionsTalent]

Comfort???

[@TomMaster]

Welp, the election didn’t go smoothly 💀

[@2012photograph]

Wow 82% our nation vote amazing.

[@iEatMunsters]

Registered voters. Not the population

[@stevenwiederholt7000]

History doesn't repeat itself...but it does rhyme.

[@retroguy9494]

Yes, history DOES repeat itself......just with a bit of a different twist.

[@demetrisstevens4082]

" The capital is just beautiful,"!!!!!! Thank God it's ours.

[@emmgeevideo]

Another thoughtful piece by the brilliant Mo Rocca.

[@floridamane9]

The parallels are uncanny

[@dustinhinson2117]

The fact that this video came out days before the 2020 election speaks volumes of prior knowledge as to who was going to win.

[@keithclifton392]

I’ve been to the Hayes house in Fremont, OH. Well worth a visit.

[@delavalmilker]

The Presidency was weak and Congress was strong in the later part of the 19th century. Powerful senators had impeached President Johnson, and overawed Grant. That explains a string of rather mediocre presidents after Lincoln.

[@57highland]

In his brief time as president, James Garfield tried to recover some of the executive branch's power. In fact, his assassin was a disgruntled job seeker who had lost his job (or a perceived job opportunity) due to Garfield's efforts to end the "spoils" system. His successor, Chester A. Arthur, continued Garfield's efforts.

[@jimkinkade6919]

Shades of 2020!

[@tonyarceneaux286]

1876 Presidental election makes the current one seems mild.

[@Cool-123]

I am from the future, yeah I think we having a second civil

[@Midwest..]

And MAGA, Confederate, Right wing extremist lose again 😁😂😁

[@danielburubeltz3888]

sounds just like this 2020 election

[@FranzFerdinandVIII]

Rutherford Birchard Hayes may also have been the first US President to use the telephone. 6.Feb.2021

[@tontyrutinel7680]

More of this please

[@baylasosa5957]

Florida gotta Florida

[@falcon.heavy.]

Time is a flat circle

[@bluzfiddler1]

8:23 When she said that if either had an aggressive personality, "the whole tenor [of the transfer of power] would have changed." That is a bit chilling to hear post-J6.

[@Auron12786]

“An election we hope goes far more smoothly than the disputed election of 1876.” Lady, I have bad news for you…

[@2legit64]

I had the privilege of visiting the Hayes Library and home last fall and they were spectacular. I was very impressed. Of all of the presidential libraries I've visited so far, I have to put this one close to the top.

[@franksnyder1357]

RIP Mr. Kuralt.

[@nonabliss]

2020: "Nine days to go before America decides on a choice for president. An election that we certainly hope goes far more smoothly than the disputed election of 1876....." Jan 6, 2021: So much for hoping......

[@AaronCLB]

the intro lmao

[@irvingr.fatback886]

Sammy Tilden, aye, I knew him well!

[@jakeharmon542]

It's a shame. Hayes was a wonderful president and is only remembered for a "offer he could not refuse"

[@rondrake3720]

Contested it properly, after concession.

[@joshyambao2766]

Sounds like Georgia and Texas this 2021.

[@mitchreed6630]

well here we are

[@bxnjxmxn2942]

Here after the Capitol was invaded confirming this election was NOT smoother than the one in 1876 lol.

[@TheAmazingHuman]

Country "survived" at the expense of its Black citizens. How different the world would be if they were protected by their government.

[@basilmarasco1975]

People don't realize (and are loathe to admit) how profound is the plight of the African-American minority: To be unprotected by the government. Sold out, for all intents and purposes. By the party that always claims to have "freed the slaves."

[@TheAmazingHuman]

@@basilmarasco1975 good point.

[@CJ87317]

Reconstruction was gonna end regardless. Democrats won the House and were starving funding for the occupation force in the South. Hayes gets crap for selling out the Freedmen, but he didn't really have a choice.

[@patricksanders858]

So WE HAVE decided, now we have to keep it.