Confederate States Presidential election, 2005 (Cinco De Mayo)

The Confederate States Presidential election was held on November 8, 2005 to elect the President of the Confederate States. Incumbent Progressive Al Gore was prohibited from seeking additional terms of office as per the Constitution of the Confederate States. The Progressives nominated Florida Senator Bob Graham as their candidate, the Southern Front nominated former Texas Senator Phil Gramm, and the Conservative Party nominated former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee. In the aftermath of the economic devastation wreaked by Hurricane Katrina and with a general shift of working-class white voters away from the Progressive Party as a result of the Gore years, Huckabee won a resounding victory, carrying twelve of sixteen states including Graham's home state of Florida, and for the first time since its founding the Southern Front failed to carry a single state in the Presidential election.