Presidential election in the United States, 1908

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31. Presidential election
November 3, 1908
			Republican Party
			William Taft / James Sherman
			electors					321
			be right				7,678,395
									51.6%
			Democratic Party
			William J. Bryan / John W. Kern
			electors					162
			be right				6,408,984
									43.0%
Election results by state
29 states   Taft / Sherman						17 states   Bryan / Kern
President of the United States
Before the election Theodore Roosevelt Republican Party						Elected William Taft Republican Party

The 1908 presidential election in the United States took place on November 3, 1908 . The popular incumbent president, Theodore Roosevelt , kept his promise and did not run for a third term, and convinced Republicans to nominate William Howard Taft , who was a close friend of his. After the Democrats suffered a major defeat in the 1904 election with a Conservative candidate, they nominated William Jennings Bryan , who had already run against the Republican William McKinley in the elections of 1896 and 1900 , but had lost both elections. Despite everything, Bryan could not prevail against Taft and suffered an even worse defeat than in his two previous candidacies. He won only 162 electoral votes, while Taft received 321 electoral votes.

literature

• Donald Richard Deskins, Hanes Walton, Sherman C. Puckett: Presidential Elections, 1789-2008: County, State, and National Mapping of Election Data. University of Michigan, Ann Arbor 2010, ISBN 978-0-472-11697-3 , pp. 285-294 (= Chapter 33: William Howard Taft's Election. ).

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