1849 American Confederacy Presidential Election

[JWHart]

Jefferson Davis is the only one of those choices who is remotely palatable.

Actually, JD was a pretty lousy wartime leader -- which is why I voted for him, to sabotage the CSA.

[JWHart]

Interesting, but if Tyler had manage to win election in 1844, he probably wouldn't have acted as stated in the OP.  After all, he had advocated annexation of Texas in his bid to stay in office.

That's a typo in the OP, it should read "outgoing U.S. Vice-President John Tyler" -- Van Buren was the outgoing President.

[JWHart]

C'mon, someone else vote so we don't have to sit through a runoff!