Jefferson Davis, a US President?

DaHound22

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What if Jefferson Davis were elected President of the United States of America? Say the POD is, somehow, the Northern Democrats, Southern Democrats and Constitutional Union agree to unite over Jeff Davis in order to stop the Republicans in 1860. Breckinridge or Bell can play VP in this episode. What kind of President would Davis be without a massive war, blockade and brand new nation to deal with? Would he avoid the Civil War? What were his opinions on issues like Native Americans, expansion, industrialization and other such issues of the day he never got a chance to deal with? Would he be seen more fondly in the modern day? Let me know!

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Stephan Douglas as vice-president? Could the ticket steal enough Northern voters to stop Lincoln?

I still think a civil war is unavoidable as soon as a Republican takes office (maybe even just take control of the House or Senate) or as soon as the North has enough of the peculiar institution. Davis doesn't seem like an acute enough politician to avoid a Pierce or Buchanan situation.
 

DaHound22

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My only issue with Stephen Douglass as VP is that he died in 61, although im sure that can be avoided in there's a delayed war (he died of typhoid fever while campaigning for the Union cause). Interestingly enough, the 3 Democratic candidates combined for around 2.8-2.9 million votes to Lincoln's 1.8-1.9 million. Lincoln's popular vote was only 39.5% of the vote.
 
My only issue with Stephen Douglass as VP is that he died in 61, although im sure that can be avoided in there's a delayed war (he died of typhoid fever while campaigning for the Union cause). Interestingly enough, the 3 Democratic candidates combined for around 2.8-2.9 million votes to Lincoln's 1.8-1.9 million. Lincoln's popular vote was only 39.5% of the vote.

True; though in fact if you subtract the electors from the state's where Lincoln won with less than 50% of the vote he'd still have 166 electors, 14 more than was necessary for a majority. So you could have had an election where 60% of the population voted for one candidate, but the guy with 40% won the election. In reality I'm sure some loyal Democrats stayed home because victory seemed impossible with the party so fractured, or some Northerners who might have voted for the Democrats switched to Lincoln as a reaction against the Southern extremism on display. If that describes even 1.5% of voters in Illinois and Indiana that year, then a united Democratic party with a unity nominee might pull off the win. Though I doubt that Jefferson Davis is the man to do it; not even really about Jefferson Davis as an individual, just any Southerner in the climate if 1860.
 
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