The B.O.W (Blog of Wrestling)

 Intro: Hello and welcome back to the presidential election series as I'll be going over the election of 1880 as two wild card candidates in James Garfield and Winfield Scott Hancock are being thrown into the mix to see who the next president of the United States will be...So with all that said, let's get into it. One & Done for Rutherford After the madness that was the election of 1876, Rutherford B. Hayes' presidency saw the former Ohio Governor attempting to pass Civil Service Reform, settling a dispute between Argentina and Paraguay and stopping a major railroad strike that occurred in 1877 between the workers and a militia organized by those in charge of the railroad companies. Despite all of this, Hayes continued to be dogged by his controversial victory four years earlier with many referring to him as "Rutherfraud" or "His Fraudulency" but it didn't matter too much to Hayes as he promised to step down after one term as president with his v...

Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election series as I'll be going over the election of 1876, an election that not only saw the United States turn 100 years old but also one of the closest and most consequential elections in the nation's history and the results of this race will change the direction of the country for generations to come...so with all that said, let's get into it. A Struggling Nation Ulysses S. Grant's second term was a difficult one thanks to things like the infamous 'Colfax Massacre' which led to around 60-130 people dead to the large number of scandals and corruption that have been plaguing the Grant administration. Grant had actually considered running for a third term as president (making him the first POTUS to do so), but with all of the numerous scandals he decided not to. The economy itself wasn't doing so good around as it led to a great depression in the financial markets h owever following the Gr...