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Hayes carried all the rest of the North and much of the West.
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But without the three southern states counted,
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Louisiana, Florida and South Carolina,
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the electoral count--and when the returns came in,
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that night and the next day; and it took longer in those years,
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it took at least twenty-four hours after an election ended,
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and sometimes forty-eight hours before they even had real,
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official counts.
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In the Electoral College--
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now first of all there's no question that at least in the votes cast,
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Tilden won the popular vote.
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If you like, in terms of numbers,