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It is, but Congress is caught in a Catch-22 situation here. Hancock the Superb has won, but Georgia screwed up. No matter which way they go a whole lot of people aren't going to be happy. In RL Congress said the Georgia EC votes were valid, but those votes weren't the deciding ones.

I thought of a way the election of 1880 could have made Jan 6th look pleasant ... The results are different enough in favor of Hancock that the winner depends on Congress deciding if the EC votes from Georgia are valid. The electors from Georgia did not cast their votes when they were supposed...

Oh, he'd go after both. The question, in my mind: who does he get to first?

Maybe. Charles Guiteau threw his support behind Garfield partly because he wanted a patronage job. He didn't get one and took it out on Garfield. If Hancock wins he might still kill Garfield out of frustration because he might not have the connections needed to meet with Hancock. He's the wild...

The election of 1880 with Winfield Scott Hancock winning. He was a highly respected Union General and a Democrat. He lost the popular vote by about 2,000 votes while carrying the entire South. Him winning would have changed things. How? I don't know.