United States Presidential Election, 1944 (Southern Victory)

The U.S. presidential election of 1944 was the first presidential election held in the U.S. after Second Great War.

The Candidates
Incumbent President Charles W. La Follette had ascended to the office in 1942, when a Confederate bombing raid on Philadelphia killed his predecessor, Al Smith. He maintained a hands-off policy during the war, allowing the might of the U.S. military to be fully brought to bear against the C.S. which brought about a decisive U.S. victory.

Thomas Dewey had made a name for himself as a crusading prosecutor in New York.

The Campaign
On paper, La Follette's role as victorious president should have given him an easy victory when he ran in his own right. La Follette ran on a promise of reintegrating the C.S. states into the Union, as well as the promise of the country's continued dominance on the continent.

Despite La Follette's sturdy leadership and complete U.S. victory, Dewey and the Democratic Party campaigned on the idea that complaceny and appeasement under the Socialist Party had made the rise of Jake Featherston and the attack on the United States possible. Dewey asserted that he would be far better suited to keep the peace now that the Socialists had won the war.

The Election
Although La Follette and his supporters correctly pointed out that Featherston and the C.S. had made substantial gains under Democrat Herbert Hoover, Dewey's campaign appealed to the voters. And so for second time in U.S. history, an incumbent president was voted out of office in spite of a tremendous military victory over the Confederate States.