Charles E. Hughes Defeats Woodrow Wilson In 1916

The election of 1916, was decided by California, where Woodrow Wilson won just enough votes to win a second term as President, deafeating former Governer of New York, Charles E. Hughes.

It didn't have to be that way. Before the election, Hughes lost the support of the governor of California, a man who could have helped him carry the state, and thus give him the White House.

How would World War One have turned out with Hughes and not Wilson as the President who took America too war?
 
Hughes may remain neutral in World War One. If so a negotiated compromise might end World War One.

Or, germany tries to hold onto the ghost, as no Wilson means the Germans dont think that they can get worthwhile terms. So germany scrapes together enough to hang in the fight that little bit longer, and then Germany collapses even more than in OTL around December 1918. Quite possibly no versailles or comparable treaty, as the german empire comes apart at the seams.
 
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