1908 Election (The Bourbon Restoration)
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Question: Your choice?
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President Alton Parker / Vice-President Henry Davis (Democratic)		  
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Former Secretary of War William Taft / Congressman James Sherman (Republican)		  
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Eugene Debs / Benjamin Hanford (Socialist)		  
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Eugene Chafin / Aaron Watkins (Prohibition)		  
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Total Voters: 36

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« on: January 15, 2015, 02:28:06 PM »
President Parker's administration largely continued the policies of Roosevelt, with a few exceptions. Parker's initiative to grant independence to the Philippines was unsuccessful due to Congressional opposition. Parker signed into law an eight-hour workday, while vetoing a bill that would create government price controls on railroad rates. Parker was renominated despite stern opposition from the Bryan wing of the party.

While Roosevelt was very tempted to vie for a rematch, his landslide defeat in 1904 made him a nonstarter with the Republican establishment, and thus Roosevelt threw his support behind loyal subordinate William Taft.
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« Reply #1 on: January 15, 2015, 02:30:46 PM »
Yuck. Parker, is the lesser of many evils, I guess.
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« Reply #2 on: January 15, 2015, 02:34:37 PM »
Debs, Bourbon Democrats and Taftian Republicans are the ugliest factions of both sides.
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« Reply #3 on: January 15, 2015, 02:36:12 PM »
Debs gets first preference, but Parker and Taft wouldn't be terrible.
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« Reply #4 on: January 15, 2015, 02:37:39 PM »
Hopefully 1912 will be fun (in order to make up for the anticlimactic 1892 election)
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« Reply #5 on: January 15, 2015, 02:46:37 PM »
Switching to Dawkins who edges out Chafin. The other two not even close.
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« Reply #6 on: January 15, 2015, 02:48:53 PM »
Debs, duh

Quote from: Harry S Truman on January 15, 2015, 02:30:46 PM
Yuck. Parker, is the lesser of many evils, I guess.
Why is Parker the lesser evil compared to Taft but not Roosevelt?
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« Reply #7 on: January 15, 2015, 03:23:48 PM »
Debs!!!!!
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« Reply #8 on: January 15, 2015, 04:20:30 PM »
Quote from: Senator SWE on January 15, 2015, 02:48:53 PM
Debs, duh

Quote from: Harry S Truman on January 15, 2015, 02:30:46 PM
Yuck. Parker, is the lesser of many evils, I guess.
Why is Parker the lesser evil compared to Taft but not Roosevelt?
I'm judging them based on their effectiveness as chief executive, not their policies (which were admittedly pretty similar). Roosevelt was a genius when it came to getting his agenda through Congress. Taft pretty much twiddled his thumbs and let Joseph Cannon get away with murder when he was president. A vote for Taft is a vote for a president who will let the conservatives in his party walk all over him. Seeing as Parker seems to have accomplished something approaching a progressive record, I (very reluctantly) voted for him.
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« Reply #9 on: January 15, 2015, 06:14:07 PM »
Taft, I guess.
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« Reply #10 on: January 15, 2015, 08:44:33 PM »
Debs
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« Reply #11 on: January 15, 2015, 09:16:44 PM »
Parker/Davis
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« Reply #12 on: January 16, 2015, 01:41:43 PM »
Taft is the lesser of the evils.
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« Reply #13 on: January 17, 2015, 09:57:17 AM »
With an unprecedented 84% of the vote, President Parker wins a reelection unanimously, a fear only previously achieved by Washington, Van Buren, and Taylor.
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« Reply #14 on: January 18, 2015, 06:34:41 PM »
So wait, does this mean Taft lost every state?
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