1908 United States presidential election | Wikipedia audio article
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1908 United States presidential election


00:01:26 1 Nominations
00:01:35 1.1 Republican Party nomination
00:02:10 1.1.1 Candidates gallery
00:04:05 1.2 Democratic Party nomination
00:05:45 1.3 Others
00:05:53 1.3.1 Independence Party nomination
00:06:29 1.3.2 Candidates gallery
00:08:02 1.3.3 Socialist Party nomination
00:08:27 1.3.4 Candidates gallery
00:09:05 2 General election
00:09:15 2.1 Campaign
00:10:55 2.2 Results
00:15:45 2.3 Geography of results
00:15:54 2.3.1 Cartographic gallery
00:16:03 2.4 Results by state
00:16:11 2.5 Close states
00:17:20 2.5.1 Statistics
00:18:42 3 Campaign memorabilia
00:18:52 4 See also



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The United States presidential election of 1908 was the 31st quadrennial presidential election, held on Tuesday, November 3, 1908. Secretary of War and Republican Party nominee William Howard Taft defeated three-time Democratic nominee William Jennings Bryan.
Popular incumbent President Theodore Roosevelt honored his promise not to seek a third term, and persuaded his close friend, Taft, to become his successor. With Roosevelt's support, Taft won the presidential nomination of the 1908 Republican National Convention on the first ballot. Having lost the 1904 election badly, the Democratic Party re-nominated Bryan, who had been defeated in 1896 and 1900 by Republican William McKinley. Despite his two previous defeats and the waning of the Free Silver issue, Bryan remained extremely popular among the more liberal and populist elements of the Democratic Party.
Bryan ran a vigorous campaign against the nation's business elite, but the Democrat suffered the worst loss of his three presidential campaigns. Taft won 51.6% of the popular vote and carried most states outside of the Solid South. Taft's triumph gave Republicans their fourth straight presidential election victory. Two third party candidates, Eugene V. Debs of the Socialist Party and Eugene W. Chafin of the Prohibition Party, each took over 1% of the popular vote.