This is the twenty sixth edition of my hypothetical presidential polling series. Use your alternative goggles to ponder what could have been Horatio Seymour beating hero of the Civil War Ulysses S. Grant!
- Thomas Jefferson (1796): 3.3
- John Adams (1800): 2.6
- Charles Pinckney (1804): 2.8
- Charles Pinckney (1808): 2.4
- DeWitt Clinton (1812): 3.5
- Rufus King (1816): 3.4
- Andrew Jackson (1824): 1.6
- William Crawford (1824): 2.8
- Henry Clay (1824): 3.4
- John Quincy Adams (1828): 3.4
- Henry Clay (1832): 3.4
- William Wirt (1832): 3.6
- William Henry Harrison (1836): 3.0
- Hugh White (1836): 2.9
- Martin Van Buren (1840): 2.6
- Henry Clay (1844): 3.5
- Lewis Cass (1848): 2.2
- Martin Van Buren (1848): 2.6
- Winfield Scott (1852): 3.1
- John C Fremont (1856): 4.3
- Millard Fillmore (1856): 1.8
- Stephen Douglas (1860): 1.5
- John C Beckenridge (1860): 1.1
- John Bell (1860): 1.3
- George McClellan (1864): 1.2
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Ulysses S. Grant's opponent in the 1868 Presidential election was Horatio Seymour, who ran on a ticket of being the "White Man's" choice, as opposed to Grant, who was viewed as being the Negro's choice. How different might things of have been had Seymour and Blair won the election in 1868?
In the first election since the end of the Civil War, President Seward has faced vast scrutiny, both over the Treaty of Washington and the controversy regarding the potential illegitimacy of his presidency following Assassination of Speaker Colfax and President Pro-Tempore Wade alongside President Jackson, creating a constitutional crisis which led to his assumption of the role in a De-Jure acting capacity until the following election.
18th President of the United States of America, William H. Seward
Nonetheless, President Seward intends to look forward and finish the work his predecessors started in moving the country forward, even if it is deprived of the south. Selecting Montgomery Blair, Former Postmaster-General as his running mate to help Foster unity.
Former Governor Horatio Seymour
The Union Democrats have nominated Horatio Seymour, despite his continual refusal, he was nominated unanimously and essentially forced to be the candidate. The Platform is openly pro-southern and the convention’s motto was simply ‘This is a White Man's Country, Let White Men Rule’. Francis Preston Blair Jr. was nominated as the running mate, ironically leaving him and his brother Montgomery both on opposing tickets.
General, Senator, and Presidential Candidate, John C. Frémont
Finally, the Shermanite RCU has nominated John C. Frémont on their Ticket, after the refusal of William Tecumseh Sherman to be nominated. General Edmund J. Davis was nominated as his running mate, making this election have the honour of all Vice Presidential Candidates being born in what is now outside the United States. The RCU runs on total abolition, civil rights for African Americans, and for a total severance of relations with the CSA.
America looks towards the future with fiery eyes, as the Nation feels the tears and scars every day.
