United States presidential election, 2044

The United States presidential election of 2044 was the 65th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 8, 2044. Democratic candidate and incumbent President William B. Johannson was presiding over the successful U.S. intervention into the South American Drug War and the continued American exploration efforts at Mars, the Moon, and the Marsian Asteroid Belt. Johannson, who enjoyed a high approval rating with the American populace, won 61.1% of the popular vote, tied for the highest margin won by a candidate since James Monroe's re-election in 1820, and the highest margin won by a candidate in 82 years. It was the most lopsided presidential election of the twenty-first century in terms of popular votes, and the fourth-most lopsided presidential election in terms of electoral votes, behind the elections of 1984, 1936, and 1972. No candidate since has equaled or surpassed Johannson's percentage of the popular vote, and since 1820, only Abraham Lincoln in 1864, Franklin D. Roosevelt in 1936, Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964, Richard M. Nixon in 1972, and Ronald Reagan in 1980 and 1984 have won by a similar electoral-vote margin.

The Republican candidate, Governor Jackson T. Beauregard of Louisiana, suffered from a lack of support from his own party and his deeply unpopular political positions. Johannson's campaign advocated for a series of economic and social programs known as the New Society and successfully portrayed Beauregard as being a dangerous extremist. Johannson easily won the Presidency, carrying 46 of the 50 states and the District of Colombia. Beauregard carried the remaining four states-his home state of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama, and West Virginia-and Nebraska's 3rd congressional district.

Beauregard's unsuccessful bid spelled the end of the modern conservative movement which had begun with Ronald Reagan in 1980 and influenced the long-term realignment occurring within the Republican Party, ultimately culminating in Meghan McCain's victory in the election of 2052. His campaign received the greatest amount of support in the Deep South and in interior regions of the Mountain West. Conversely, Johannson won Alaska for the Democrats for the second time in history, Indiana for the second time in the twenty-first century, and Idaho

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