I know it was a long time ago, so you were probably not considering it, but I thought the Wikiped entry for 1876 pres elections was interesting: https://en.wik

I know it was a long time ago, so you were probably not considering it, but I thought the Wikiped entry for 1876 pres elections was interesting: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1876#Campaign https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_ele... "Because it was considered improper for a candidate to pursue the presidency actively, neither Tilden nor Hayes actively stumped as part of the campaign, leaving that job to surrogates."