1876 Gotham Presidential election

The 1876 presidential election was the 3rd election in gotham it ended with Samuel J Tilden a conservative and a democrat beating former Califronia Governor Jhon C Fremont by a large margin.

The Campaign
with the Left-wing of te republican party leaving to form the Socialist party in 1871 the Socialists nominated Jhon C Fremont for President and the Republicans nominated Timothy Rondel a west virgina yankee who was a moderate republican rondel was governor of west virginia the Democrats nominated the right-wing governor Samuel J Tilden who had fought for a end to the civil war keeping taxs at none no taxes and anti tammany politics because of this the tammany hall machine felt very isolated as the Democrats had become a right-wing party tammany was mainly populist Tammany formered there own party Machine Democrats and only had bases in large citys such as chicago and especially new york city however won no states despite winning 12% of the popular vote and coming close to the Socialists and Republicans well fairly close in the popular vote. Hall hurt the Socialists amongst irish and italian immagrants this hurt the Socialists badly coming of a large large tax cut by Horatio Seymor the right-wingers cuts were very unpopular however these series of misforutines lead to a landslide much bigger then 1872 for the Democrats as Tilden won all but 6 states.