In 1876, the presidental election has quite a bit in common with the presidential election of 2000. Republican Rutherford B. Hayes ran against Democrat Samuel J. Tilden in the first episode of historical repetition. In particular, the 1876 election involved an Electoral College disagreement which was not exactly covered by the U.S. Constitution. It had not been addressed before, but it will again. It was, in the end, resolved by an ad hoc Electoral Commission created by Congress and was made up