"In 1876, Hayes was elected president in one of the most contentious and hotly disputed elections in American history. Although he lost the popular vote to Democrat Samuel J. Tilden, Hayes won the presidency by the narrowest of margins after a Congressional commission awarded him twenty disputed electoral votes. The result was the Compromise of 1877, in which the Democrats acquiesced to Hayes's election and Hayes accepted the end of military occupation of the South."
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutherford_B._Hayes
Echoes of 2000. Another close election is predicted for this year? Not according to Karl Rove:
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/karl-roves-electoral-map-if-election-were-held-today-obama-would-win/
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