[mac_truck]

Jefferson Davis was nominated in committee (the Constitutional Convention) and was ELECTED Provisional President...Davis RAN for election and won the seat.

Yawn...ok chief how many VOTES did Jefferson Davis receive and whom did he BEAT to become ELECTED president of the confederacy?

[M. Espinola]

Good point regarding the election of Mr. Davis.

I wonder if there was a full scale media blitz? Soft money? Hard money? poll workers by the thousands? Signs everywhere? TV blitz..lol?, Non-profits kicking in donations? Lobbyists galore? Newspaper endorsements and campaign contributions even from overseas fat cats and supporting Kings & Queens? Was 'election day' a holiday? What was the popular and electoral vote breakdown state by state?

(continued....How many votes did Davis get out of New York, Rhode Island & Iowa for example? How many other certified candidates ran against old Jeffy, and from which political parties?

(continued ....Which newspaper got the scoop on election night on the 'winner'? Were Davis & Stephens from the same political party?

(continued....Was there ever a 'Dump Davis drive at the 'convention'? Were all convention delegates pledged to only the Davis/Stephens dream team?

Maybe the election slogans/posters/signs/poll handouts were:

'It's Cotton or Them!'

'Slaves for Davis/Stephens!

'Vote Early and Often!'

'It's Davis or Damned!

'Davis in 61!'

'Put Jeff in the White House!'

'Vote Cotton!'

'Dems for Davis!'

'Secession Forever!'

'Rebellionites for Jeff Davis!'

'Dumb Dumbs for Davis'

'Stephens for VP Slave Master!'

'Davis Dream Team (photos)'

'Rebels for Jeff!'

'Beat them there Yanks!'

'No 2nd Term!'

'Secessionists for Stephens!'

'CottonKings for Davis!'

'Rebel, Rebel, Rebel!'

'Pro-slavers for Stephens!'

'Dummies Dig Davis!'

'Daviscrats!'

The traditional expected spin shall be quickly forth coming from the 'chief' master for the promotion of the 'Lost cause & continued Civil War'.

For the next 'election' on this platform contributions are not tax deductible! :)

[Non-Sequitur]

Yawn...ok chief how many VOTES did Jefferson Davis receive and whom did he BEAT to become ELECTED president of the confederacy?

Davis ran unopposed, the ultimate rigged election.

[4CJ]

All of them ;o) President George Washington was also elected unanimously. For provisional President:

The Convention of the seceding States at Montgomery, on Saturday, 9th, elected a President and a Vice-President for the proposed Southern Confederacy, as follows:

For President—JEFFERSON DAVIS, of Mississippi.

For Vice-President--ALEX H. STEPHENS, of Georgia. The vote for these gentlemen was unanimous.
Harper's Weekly, 23 Feb 1861, p. 119, col. 2

Elected by the people of the states (information from American Memory website):

Today in History: November 6

Jefferson Davis Elected

Voters loyal to the Confederate States of America went to the polls to elect their leaders on November 6, 1861. Running unopposed, provisional president Jefferson Davis was elected to a six-year term.

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Yawn...ok chief how many VOTES did Jefferson Davis receive and whom did he BEAT to become ELECTED president of the confederacy?

Cobb, Barnwell, Rhett - all were in the running at some point.

"The Delegation got word back to Governor Pettus that Davis would almost certainly be ELECTED."
Davis, William C, Look Away, p72