hayes and tilden? a great question and the first thing i'll say is that nominations, presidential nominations in the 19th century were very different than they are today. today we have a process primaries and by the time we get to a major national convention for either of the major political parties, we know who the nominee is going to be. and in modern presidential conventions are really just advertised. osment's 3 to 4 day long advertisements for the party and its nominee. in the 19th century, there was real suspense, real mystery about who would be a party's nominee. and the conventions were really used as a way for the different delegates from individual states to hash out and figure out who would be the nominee for the republican ends. the frontrunner going into their convention. was a man named james blaine. james blaine was probably the most prominent republican nationally outside of president grant. he had been speaker of the house during most of the grant administration. most assumed he would

hayes and tilden? a great question and the first thing i'll say is that nominations, presidential nominations in the 19th century were very different than they are today. today we have a process primaries and by the time we get to a major national convention for either of the major political parties, we know who the nominee is going to be. and in fact, modern presidential conventions are really just advertised. osment's 3 to 4 day long advertisements for the party and its nominee. in the 19th century, there was real suspense, real mystery about who would be a party's nominee. and the conventions were really used as a way for the different delegates from individual states to hash out and figure out who would be the nominee for the republican ends. the frontrunner going into their convention. was a man named james blaine. james blaine was probably the most prominent republican nationally outside of president grant. he had been speaker of the house during most of the grant administration. most assumed he

hard to do in the of a of a heated election like hayes tilden chose as an 1876. and unless you set up in well in advance with contingency and so if you need a tribunal the judicial tribunal is going to be better an ostensibly tribunal maybe, judges are going to be affected, but they're to try to settle these things pursuant to the rule of law and my hope had been that whether you like that decision or not, the basic principle that this is going to be governed by law, by constitutional values, equal protection would actually be a good thing for the country going forward. and just to follow up on a little bit, because i know don is going to take us into 2020, but two things. one, you are probably a little more favorable towards bush record some some election law scholars. but you do note, i think all of us note the significant rise in election litigation, law litigation since bush-gore. i don't know if you want to speak to that, but is that many of us got interested in elections because of bush record. but also avenues were opened up. bush-gore perhaps opened up sh

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despite losing the popular vote, republican ohio governor rutherford hayes defeated new york owner samuel tilden. it was a contentious election that had to be decided by a special election made up by the u.s. house, senate, and supreme court. of the result remains controversial and impacts the country after this day. watch historic presidential election saturdays at 7:00 p.m. eastern on american history tb on c-span 2. you >>> we are going to speak to michael mcdonald. he is a political science professor at the university of florida. michael, welcome to the program. >> great to be with you. >> you created or operate the u.s. elections project. what is it and why did you start it? >> well, originally, it was just a platform to put out updates for my research. i calculated turnout rates for the country that are used broadly by media, academics, policymakers, and so i wanted to have a way to disseminate that information as new elections occurred. but then in 2008, i started tracking early voting. and i was doing that with the national exit polling organization. and so i just as a lark posted that o