1948Facing a moribund economy and a disastrous internationalist foreign policy, the nation's first Catholic president would go down in flames with the Democratic vote split between himself and Progressive former Vice President T.N.F. This would allow former Oklahoma Congressman Maxwell A. Huffington to win on a platform of economic deregulation and isolationism. Charging the nation's troubles with high taxes, strangulation at the hands of "big labor", too much money spent on domestic and military spending, and unsuccessful attempts to battle international communism, Maxwell won a solid 48% of the vote to Cathcon's 42 and T.N.F.'s 9. Despite Cathcon agreeing with much of what Maxwell said on economics, his platform had been controlled by the same liberal Democrats he'd been battling since Roosevelt's death, and had been set in stone by the death of the late president.
Former Congressman Maxwell A. Huffington (R-OK)/Senator Robert M. La Follette, Jr. (R-WI) 274 electoral votesPresident Cathcon (D-MI)/Senator Richard B. Russell (D-GA) 189 electoral votesFormer Vice President Theodore Nugent Fauntroy (P-KY)/Senator Wayne Morse (P-OR) 68 electoral votes
