The American Presidential Election of 1912

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    The 32nd episode in a very long series about the American presidential elections from 1788 to the present. In 1912, Theodore Roosevelt single handedly destroys the Republican Party because they aren't "Progressive" enough, and the Democrats rejoice.
    The 32nd Presidential election in American history took place on November 5, 1912. Oh yeah! This was the election that was completely and utterly messed up. It was weird, man. Really weird. How weird? Well look at the electoral map, for crying out loud. What the heck is that?
    But I’m ahead of myself. Let’s go back a bit. The Taft presidency was supposed to be Theodore Roosevelt 2.0. But right off the bat, it just wasn’t that way. Taft, was, like, his own person. He fired Cabinet members that Roosevelt had approved of or appointed. While Taft continued to fight trusts, he placed less of a commitment to conservation, labor unions, and restrictions on the employment of women and children. Soon there was a clear split in the Republican Party, between the more conservative leaning Republicans led by Taft, and the Progressive Republicans, led by Teddy Roosevelt.
    After traveling around the world with his family for more than a year, Roosevelt came home to one of the biggest receptions ever given in New York City. Initially neutral about giving his opinion about how his friend was doing as President, that changed when eventually a bunch of Progressive Republicans had convinced Roosevelt to run against Taft in 1912.
    The Republicans expanded their primaries to include even more delegates from across the country to the national convention to choose their nominee. Going into the convention, Roosevelt actually had more delegates than Taft did. Taft’s people, however, controlled the convention and essentially shut out many of the Roosevelt delegates. This, of course, made Roosevelt very angry, and he and his supporters stormed out of the convention. Not since the election of 1872 had their been such a major divide within the Republican Party.
    In fact, Roosevelt and his supporters completely abandoned the Republicans, two weeks later meeting up to create their own political party, called the Progressive Party. These Progressives nominated Roosevelt for President (well duh) and Hiram Johnson, the Governor of California, as his running mate. At the convention, Roosevelt passionately called for what he called a “New Nationalism.” Their platform sought a minimum wage for women, an 8-hour workday, a child labor law, a social security system, a national health service, and the direct election of U.S. senators, among other things. Afterward, Roosevelt told reporters he felt as strong as a bull moose. After that, the Progressive Party became popularly known as the “Bull Moose Party.”
    Despite the excitement of the Bull Moose Party, the Republicans pressed on with Taft as their candidate and James Sherman again as his running mate. Believe it or not, Sherman was the first incumbent Vice President to be nominated for re-election since John Calhoun way back in 1828.
    Meanwhile, the Democratic Party, who hadn’t done so well in presidential elections since, I don’t know, before the Civil War, saw this major split of the Republican Party as a golden opportunity. They had a bit of drama as well as their own convention. Originally it looked like Champ Clark, the Speaker of the House from Missouri, was going to be the guy, but he failed to get the ⅔ majority needed to secure the nomination. In second place was Woodrow Wilson, the Governor of New Jersey. Wilson didn’t really think he had a chance, but then William Jennings Bryan decided to endorse him, and Bryan still had a lot of fans, so he had a lot of influence. On the 46th ballot. That’s right, I said 46th, Wilson was nominated, with Thomas Marshall, the governor of Indiana, as his running mate.
    So that’s it? Oh heck no.
    In 1912, Eugene Debs ran for President a 4th time, trying to keep together a Socialist Party that was also splintering. Debs was by this time a recognizable name across the nation, and his running mate was Emil Seidel, the former mayor of Milwaukee. The first ever Socialist mayor of an American city, as matter of fact.
    The Prohibition Party responded to Eugene running again by having their Eugene run again. Eugene Chafin gave it a second try with Aaron Watkins again as his running mate.
    The campaigns were dominated by the rivalry between Taft and Roosevelt, former friends who now seemed like bitter enemies. With those two fighting, the election looked to be a lock for Wilson, which was lucky for the Democrats because Wilson wasn’t the most charismatic person.

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  • @iammrbeat
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    • @JakeHolzman
      @JakeHolzman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

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    • @_rigo
      @_rigo 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      @Naughty Sporty he made his channel before Mr beast

    • @divusgaiusjuliuscaesar4657
      @divusgaiusjuliuscaesar4657 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Naughty Sporty piss off

    • @brianjonker510
      @brianjonker510 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Would be good to do a new series that compares the change in composition of congress during each of these elections. Perhaps limited to 1900 to present

  • @ColinElkin-ce1337
    @ColinElkin-ce1337 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2666

    1912: The year that a former president and a current president were defeated by a future president.

    • @K.C.-Games
      @K.C.-Games 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

      And another Eugene who supports prohibition who also someone does not know

    • @Secular_Scot
      @Secular_Scot 5 ปีที่แล้ว +45

      @@GrizzleyBearington Eugene Debs is known worldwide you ignoramus.

    • @dragonlord3376
      @dragonlord3376 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      @@Secular_Scot who?

    • @DR-54
      @DR-54 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      when putting your name as "Last initial First name" makes your name sound like a pathogen

    • @nippy7425
      @nippy7425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And the dumb globalist

  • @MortalWombat4480
    @MortalWombat4480 4 ปีที่แล้ว +532

    I can imagine Roosevelt just coming back from his year long safari and being like “wtf?”

    • @poopoo-dk4hu
      @poopoo-dk4hu 3 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Underrated comment hahaha

    • @alex_flamer
      @alex_flamer 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I was thinking the same thing with that facial expression of his at 1:14.

    • @TUEE2
      @TUEE2 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Taft did nothing wrong lol

  • @ChocolateYoshi
    @ChocolateYoshi 4 ปีที่แล้ว +351

    Roosevelt and Taft ran into each other at Chicago’s Blackstone Hotel in 1918 and had a little reunion. In the years since the 1912 election that caused the break in their relationship, Taft and Roosevelt had come across each other a couple of times and briefly shook hands, but things remained icy between them. A few months before their reunion in Chicago, TR was in poor health and undergoing surgery and a telegram from Taft to Roosevelt began the thaw in their relationship and opened up communication between the former Presidents. After their Chicago reunion, they kept in touch until TR’s death.
    When Roosevelt died at the beginning of the next year, Taft attended his funeral and Roosevelt’s son, Archie, actually brought him up to the front of the church to sit with Roosevelt’s family. Later, as TR’s casket was being lowered into his grave while snow fell, Taft lingered nearby and was visibly crying over the death of his old friend.

    • @neutral7786
      @neutral7786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +43

      Amazing history. If they were to make a Biopic about Teddy roosevelt, it would be epic for the Movie to talk about this. How to value a friendship.

    • @cw732
      @cw732 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      wholesome 100

    • @ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty
      @ThunderTheBlackShadowKitty ปีที่แล้ว +9

      Wholesome

    • @employee472
      @employee472 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      WHAT??!? My father literally worked in that hotel for most of my life and I didnt even know that, thank you!!

  • @caseyclover1647
    @caseyclover1647 4 ปีที่แล้ว +780

    The man was shot and laughed it off like nothing happened and even gave the speech while the bullet was still inside his body, can we just stop for a moment to pay our respects to this man and his massive balls

    • @ZekeorSomething
      @ZekeorSomething 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

      That's why I love Teddy

    • @ZekeorSomething
      @ZekeorSomething 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @José Santiago Restrepo Garzón hello

    • @lakshyajoshi9686
      @lakshyajoshi9686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@ZekeorSomething How did the bullet felt?

    • @ZekeorSomething
      @ZekeorSomething 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@lakshyajoshi9686 Not good

    • @lakshyajoshi9686
      @lakshyajoshi9686 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ZekeorSomething how are all the presidents doing in heaven?

  • @mrnonsense1031
    @mrnonsense1031 3 ปีที่แล้ว +755

    Fun fact: William Howard Taft still holds the record for the fewest electoral votes for an incumbent president.

    • @abrahamlincoln937
      @abrahamlincoln937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Alf Landon also got 8 electoral votes in 1936 just like Taft in 1912, but unlike Taft he wasn’t the incumbent president, FDR was the incumbent president in 1936.

    • @josefstalin3394
      @josefstalin3394 3 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Not the worst percentage though

    • @TheChosennn
      @TheChosennn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Not his fault

    • @TheSSUltimateGoku
      @TheSSUltimateGoku 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Patty just conceded and stepped out to Teddy Roosevelt who was much popular that him Republicans would’ve won the White House that election. But no his ego got in the way.

    • @TheSSUltimateGoku
      @TheSSUltimateGoku 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      @@TheChosennn it is his fault he should’ve stepped out he had less delegates the Teddy Roosevelt.

  • @noahmcclintock5866
    @noahmcclintock5866 6 ปีที่แล้ว +947

    They need to make a movie about this election.

    • @KayleeCee
      @KayleeCee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +53

      Heck yes, I'd watch the hell out of that!

    • @steen5984
      @steen5984 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Is it released

    • @12345676571
      @12345676571 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      CNN did a race to the white house on this campaign

    • @JustYourAverageJoe1
      @JustYourAverageJoe1 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Alright guys. Let’s cast this

    • @tbenz123
      @tbenz123 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Just Your Average Joe who’s gonna play Roosevelt

  • @kamalindsey
    @kamalindsey 3 ปีที่แล้ว +140

    *Fun fact:* Russian Revolutionary Vladimir Lenin wrote an analysis of this election. He was an emphatic supporter of Eugene Debs, shocker.
    It is called _"The Results and Significance of the U.S. Presidential Elections",_ and it's quite interesting to see his perspective on the American situation at the time..

    • @IsaaacWithThreeA
      @IsaaacWithThreeA 2 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Imagine if Debs got elected because of a Russian’s anylisis.

    • @kamalindsey
      @kamalindsey 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@IsaaacWithThreeA What

    • @IsaaacWithThreeA
      @IsaaacWithThreeA 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@kamalindsey ?

    • @EmmaBonn96
      @EmmaBonn96 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Gosh if Debs got elected and supported the red and black armies instead of Wilson supporting the Whites, imagine what could’ve been.

  • @jesuschrist9513
    @jesuschrist9513 4 ปีที่แล้ว +560

    Okay but can y'all please just imagine if we had Teddy Roosevelt for a president during WW1? He would've built a bridge from Maine to Brittany and led the rough riders right through to Berlin.

    • @shittin_on_the_job
      @shittin_on_the_job 4 ปีที่แล้ว +57

      Not to mention the war ending sooner causing less reparations put onto Germany preventing the Nazis rising preventing the Holocaust.

    • @iDeathMaximuMII
      @iDeathMaximuMII 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@shittin_on_the_job I don’t think Roosevelt being President or the war ending sooner would’ve changed anything

    • @abrahamlincoln937
      @abrahamlincoln937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Also the Bolsheviks wouldn’t have risen to power in Russia if Roosevelt was president during WWI meaning no Soviet Union and no rise of communism.

    • @reznov129
      @reznov129 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@abrahamlincoln937 probably

    • @abrahamlincoln937
      @abrahamlincoln937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      @@reznov129 Well Alternate History Hub said that in his video on Wilson not being president.

  • @whodoobucrew2960
    @whodoobucrew2960 6 ปีที่แล้ว +744

    Is it just me, or is Wilson an incredibly scary looking guy? Something in his eyes.

    • @KayleeCee
      @KayleeCee 6 ปีที่แล้ว +163

      He is kind of scary looking. His eyes look dead and his lips are so pale. I don't know if it's just that he wasn't very photogenic or what, but his pictures are unsettling to look at.

    • @nerddragon2222
      @nerddragon2222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +70

      Wilson was scary

    • @K.C.-Games
      @K.C.-Games 5 ปีที่แล้ว +153

      And he was scary because he supported the KKK

    • @nerddragon2222
      @nerddragon2222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

      @@K.C.-Games among other things I'm starting to think even Andrew Johnson doesn't come close to what he did and that he's the most racist president and Johnson was really racist why did Lincoln pick Johnson

    • @stillikeike1086
      @stillikeike1086 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Nerd Dragon my guess is that he chose him to get more of the democratic/southern vote.

  • @jacksmith2417
    @jacksmith2417 8 ปีที่แล้ว +407

    1912 is my personal favourite Election because there were such interesting, colourful candidates.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      +Jack Smith Definitely one of my favorites as well!

    • @209gpercent
      @209gpercent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +23

      Mr. Beat it would be interesting if William Jennings Bryan endorses Theodore Roosevelt because Bryan was a progressive and it could’ve united progressive democrats and progressive republican

    • @hangukhiphop
      @hangukhiphop 4 ปีที่แล้ว +30

      and the least colorful one was the winner lol

    • @209gpercent
      @209gpercent 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      hangukhiphop yeah

    • @Mr7aguila7
      @Mr7aguila7 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@iammrbeat me to

  • @Eazy-ERyder
    @Eazy-ERyder 5 ปีที่แล้ว +295

    Definitely one of our country's GREATEST and charismatic elections. If I were alive then I would have fully supported TR. Wish he would have won..

    • @nippy7425
      @nippy7425 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

      Eazy-E Ryder yeah I probably would have voted for Taft however Roosevelt was a pretty cool dude

    • @EndietheEnderman
      @EndietheEnderman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      If only America was a preference based democracy where you can pick more than one candidate instead of the retarded electoral college.

    • @thee-coin
      @thee-coin 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      teddy knew he couldn't win. He just wanted to divide The Republican Vote to prevent Taft from winning

    • @Internetdrifter5981
      @Internetdrifter5981 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I would have supported debs :)

    • @CC-ru4rr
      @CC-ru4rr ปีที่แล้ว

      @@nippy7425 why so. just wondering

  • @beatlemaniac
    @beatlemaniac ปีที่แล้ว +31

    "Death had to take Theodore Roosevelt sleeping, for if he had been awake then there would have been a fight."
    - Thomas Marshall (Wilson's VP)

  • @LoganoPiano
    @LoganoPiano ปีที่แล้ว +163

    Imagine having the opportunity to vote for Teddy Roosevelt and not doing it

  • @mikeomoran9256
    @mikeomoran9256 3 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    I always feel bad for Taft seemed like a really good guy, who was given unrealistic expectations to achieve. Glad to see that he found something he was very very successful in at the end

    • @Benjifan2000
      @Benjifan2000 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He never wanted to be president but ended up being the reason Wilson became president.

  • @jettforpresident3428
    @jettforpresident3428 8 ปีที่แล้ว +224

    I like this election. Maybe because of the wide range of choices in 1912. You got William Howard Taft , Teddy Roosevelt, Eugene debs, and Woodrow Wilson.

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 ปีที่แล้ว +98

      +Jett For President I wish we had more choices EVERY election.

    • @jettforpresident3428
      @jettforpresident3428 8 ปีที่แล้ว +13

      Agreed.

    • @FlyinBlaney
      @FlyinBlaney 7 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      Jett For President and don't forget alcohol-hatin' Eugene Chafin!

    • @lindafromowitz9071
      @lindafromowitz9071 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      But no conservatives :(

    • @rufakiyamaofsumoforumfame3251
      @rufakiyamaofsumoforumfame3251 6 ปีที่แล้ว +29

      @@lindafromowitz9071 Well Taft was kinda conservative

  • @thezombiecreeper
    @thezombiecreeper 3 ปีที่แล้ว +58

    Roosevelt: Gets shot
    Roosevelt: Oh no! Anyway-

    • @abrahamlincoln937
      @abrahamlincoln937 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

      Roosevelt: Proceeds to give his speech

    • @minecrafthobbies1681
      @minecrafthobbies1681 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      He's such a gigachad🤣

    • @roberttuozzo4525
      @roberttuozzo4525 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Theodore was a good man. He just wanted to help us out. No wonder he got a spot on Mount Rushmore

  • @abrahamlincoln5185
    @abrahamlincoln5185 4 ปีที่แล้ว +126

    1:29 that is exactly what happened in 2016 with Bernie being Roosevelt and Hillary being Taft

    • @niccolorichter1488
      @niccolorichter1488 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      nope Bernie is Bryen and Roosevelt didnt come

    • @EndietheEnderman
      @EndietheEnderman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      Eh different but pretty similar. Bernie endorsed Hillary.

    • @新世界-b1z
      @新世界-b1z 3 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      But at least they didn't split from the Democratic Party

    • @j.franklin21
      @j.franklin21 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Hillary is Wilson, Bernie is Bryan

    • @JeanValjean875
      @JeanValjean875 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      No, it's pretty easily distinguishable. Bernie didn't run as a 3rd party candidate. He endorsed Hilary. Also, Hilary won the popular vote.

  • @redjirachi1
    @redjirachi1 6 ปีที่แล้ว +267

    Somewhere the Cynical Historian is cursing Wilson

    • @hognigk96
      @hognigk96 5 ปีที่แล้ว +40

      Wilsooooooon!

    • @jonaboktr5269
      @jonaboktr5269 4 ปีที่แล้ว +18

      John Porteous WILSOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON

    • @DebsEugeneV
      @DebsEugeneV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      That seditionist traitor arrested me because I gave a speech urging resistance to mandatory conscription

    • @jakubpociecha8819
      @jakubpociecha8819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      *SEYMOOOOOOUUUUUUUURRRRR!!!*

    • @iustinianusspeedruns
      @iustinianusspeedruns 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@DebsEugeneV yeah, that bastard

  • @sambringit7859
    @sambringit7859 5 ปีที่แล้ว +349

    Teddy Roosevelt was one of the greatest human beings to have lived ever.....

    • @ZZZDEPRIVATION
      @ZZZDEPRIVATION 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I strongly disagree.

    • @shittin_on_the_job
      @shittin_on_the_job 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@ZZZDEPRIVATION why?

    • @ZZZDEPRIVATION
      @ZZZDEPRIVATION 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@shittin_on_the_job there is no greatest human to have ever lived IMO.

    • @gregalmonte8
      @gregalmonte8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +20

      @@ZZZDEPRIVATION It’s certainly not Putin

    • @ZZZDEPRIVATION
      @ZZZDEPRIVATION 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@gregalmonte8 Damn you just disrespected Russia like that.

  • @korygala1432
    @korygala1432 7 ปีที่แล้ว +790

    Woodrow Wilson is trash Ted is the best canidate in this snerio

    • @zacharyhenderson2902
      @zacharyhenderson2902 6 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Kory Gala Boo! Taft all day

    • @K.C.-Games
      @K.C.-Games 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      It is just his opinion you met another Roosevelt fan Zachary Henderson

    • @howdypartner4818
      @howdypartner4818 5 ปีที่แล้ว +22

      Kory Gala
      1. Theodore Roosevelt
      2. Woodrow Wilson
      3. Eugene Debs
      4. William H. Taft

    • @K.C.-Games
      @K.C.-Games 5 ปีที่แล้ว +71

      Wilson is a racist so he should be the worst president in history

    • @jordandenny6875
      @jordandenny6875 5 ปีที่แล้ว +38

      @@K.C.-Games many presidents were far more racist than him, and you may be surprised to know that he was more progressive than teddy roosevelt. As crash course us history put it, taft=liberal roosevelt= crazy liberal Wilson=socialist Debs= crazy socialist. But teddy all the way

  • @williamcfox
    @williamcfox 8 ปีที่แล้ว +644

    My favorite election

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 ปีที่แล้ว +116

      One of my favorites as well!

    • @williamcfox
      @williamcfox 8 ปีที่แล้ว +21

      +Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel not good enough. You must be a 1912 purist

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 ปีที่แล้ว +50

      Maybe I'm a 2016 purist? haha

    • @FlyinBlaney
      @FlyinBlaney 8 ปีที่แล้ว +11

      Mr. Beat's Social Studies Channel How do you not have 10,000 Subs yet?

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 ปีที่แล้ว +17

      Skrub Boy Hopefully soon? I'm probably too annoying.

  • @BLAITE-hq5gy
    @BLAITE-hq5gy 6 ปีที่แล้ว +78

    This is also the last time that a president who left office ran for re-election

    • @K.C.-Games
      @K.C.-Games 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      But Hoover did not make it through the primaries

    • @zooeyhill6006
      @zooeyhill6006 4 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      Until the 2024 election, when Donald J. Trump ran for president, winning 258 electoral votes.

    • @CDsaviors
      @CDsaviors 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zooeyhill6006 Its 1796

    • @zooeyhill6006
      @zooeyhill6006 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@CDsaviors ?

    • @CDsaviors
      @CDsaviors 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@zooeyhill6006 Yeah

  • @american-professor
    @american-professor 4 ปีที่แล้ว +499

    "progressive republicans". So odd to hear in 2020.

    • @armstrongtixid6873
      @armstrongtixid6873 4 ปีที่แล้ว +63

      Now we have conservative democrats.

    • @gianmagrine3947
      @gianmagrine3947 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      The progressive ideals was invading a lot of countries for nothing,both republicans and democrats put America in the dumbest Wars with hundreds of thousands of American lives Lost during the progressive era

    • @theodoreroosevelt8607
      @theodoreroosevelt8607 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

      It was better back in my days, thats for Sure !

    • @theonetruelenny9883
      @theonetruelenny9883 3 ปีที่แล้ว +27

      @Joseph R. Biden, Jr. John McCain? Progressive? Will you shut up man?

    • @nousername1916
      @nousername1916 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @Joseph R. Biden, Jr. This John McCain worship is some of the dumbest fucking shit I’ve seen and you must have the brain of an ant. McCain is not progressive on any spectrum, and you need to stop acting like he is.

  • @aaronbkimm
    @aaronbkimm 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I cannot thank you enough for helping me write a paper on this election for school

  • @dante5622
    @dante5622 2 ปีที่แล้ว +60

    William Taft’s re-election performance makes Jimmy Carters performance look decent.

    • @TheChosennn
      @TheChosennn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Taft would’ve won if it weren’t for TR

    • @neutral7786
      @neutral7786 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@TheChosennn William howard taft would have lost even if Teddy roosevelt had not run

    • @josefstalin3394
      @josefstalin3394 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      If Carter got Anderson’s votes he would’ve won

    • @sapnamukherjee6716
      @sapnamukherjee6716 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@josefstalin3394well Anderson was a conservative so it would be an even bigger win for Reagan

    • @josefstalin3394
      @josefstalin3394 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sapnamukherjee6716 Anderson was pretty liberal on most issues. He was the last of the liberal Republicans

  • @bluelanterns2589
    @bluelanterns2589 4 ปีที่แล้ว +41

    “Friends, I don’t know if you realised, but I have just been shot.”
    Apparently getting shot in the chest and going on to speak and complete your speech for the next 90 minutes wasn’t enough to make him become president.

  • @rocketsniper8726
    @rocketsniper8726 3 ปีที่แล้ว +40

    One of the craziest elections. Too bad we ended up with Wilson.

    • @DaStareofDeath
      @DaStareofDeath ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Better than taft worse than teddy Roosevelt

  • @thesuperiorgolem5357
    @thesuperiorgolem5357 4 ปีที่แล้ว +25

    Ted Roosevelt gets shot but still says his speech, man what a guy.

    • @brrrrrtenjoyer
      @brrrrrtenjoyer 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      I think that if he won, maybe the world would be a better place. No Nazis, no Commies, a patriotic America that doesn't stick it's nose everywhere. Maybe we would be isolationist still.

  • @sawchick6384
    @sawchick6384 4 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    Bruh imagine losing presidential election 4 times lol
    - this comment was posted by William Jennings Bryan Gang

    • @DebsEugeneV
      @DebsEugeneV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

      I won 919,799 votes from prison AND came in second in Florida

    • @phgamer4393
      @phgamer4393 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      i dunno bernie might give it ago again if no one goes with biden. theres rumors hilary might run if the republicans take back everything this year.

    • @GamerPro-yc7ie
      @GamerPro-yc7ie 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DebsEugeneV that's shocking. You also won 6% of the popular vote

  • @benjijacobs2049
    @benjijacobs2049 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Rewatching this series going into tomorrow, and the election of 1912 is reminding me about what splitting the vote looks like on such a big scale

  • @Vidgmchtr
    @Vidgmchtr 2 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I do like that for this entire series, Mr. Beat plays a background tune that was produced or published the same year as the election.

  • @warrenrhinerson6373
    @warrenrhinerson6373 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Fun fact about Taft, he was the first President to have an Oval Office in the west wing of the White House. It was located where the Roosevelt room is today. The modern Oval Office was built in 1934 to aid President Franklin Roosevelt

  • @Mmsg222
    @Mmsg222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This was so funny and actually enjoyable, thanks Mr. Beat

  • @liamiangaming7931
    @liamiangaming7931 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    This is why Teddy was such a great guy.

  • @jakubpociecha8819
    @jakubpociecha8819 3 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    1901: Are you ready for Teddy?
    1904: Are you Teddy for ready?
    1908: Are you ready for not-Teddy?

  • @10yearsago94
    @10yearsago94 4 ปีที่แล้ว +49

    3 out of the 4 candidates became president or were president at some point. Crazy

    • @DebsEugeneV
      @DebsEugeneV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +15

      I should have won instead of Wilson...

    • @realchristianclips
      @realchristianclips 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      @@DebsEugeneV no

    • @AndresLeon-hz5qe
      @AndresLeon-hz5qe 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@realchristianclips Yes.

    • @realchristianclips
      @realchristianclips 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@AndresLeon-hz5qe well, my opinions on Wilson have changed a lot in the past three years… I’ll change it from a “definitely no” to a “most likely no”

  • @teddyroosevelt5719
    @teddyroosevelt5719 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I’ll be back #Roosevelt2024!

    • @shittin_on_the_job
      @shittin_on_the_job 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      First election I can vote in #Roosevelt2024

    • @Kameliius
      @Kameliius 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@shittin_on_the_job I'm not even a US citizen so I cannot vote

    • @funnyusername7097
      @funnyusername7097 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      #jimmycarter2024

    • @AQuestioner
      @AQuestioner 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You were back in ERB's battle of the 2024 election! th-cam.com/video/HVZtKKryjfU/w-d-xo.html

    • @EpicAndrew97
      @EpicAndrew97 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I wish…

  • @northkorea7353
    @northkorea7353 8 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    awesome video mr.beats!

    • @iammrbeat
      @iammrbeat  8 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Thanks Rachel!

  • @mooiemooface1550
    @mooiemooface1550 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    5:37 R.I.P.

  • @georgewashington673
    @georgewashington673 5 ปีที่แล้ว +72

    If William Jennings Bryan had run this time, he would have easily won.

    • @selahanany5645
      @selahanany5645 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      maybe not by sheer fatigue

    • @user-xf2tl8ee3c
      @user-xf2tl8ee3c ปีที่แล้ว +1

      In essence he did, since he was a close advisor and trusted supporter of Woodrow Wilson

    • @historyprofessor1985
      @historyprofessor1985 ปีที่แล้ว

      Fourth time would have definitely been the charm for Bryan!

  • @lostfan5054
    @lostfan5054 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    God damn these videos are so good.

  • @evandonovan9239
    @evandonovan9239 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Roosevelt's platform for this election was amazing for its time. I had no idea

  • @THEDonnyB
    @THEDonnyB 4 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    A fewo things...
    If the Republicans nominated Teddy he would have won.
    Teddy would have entered world war one after the Lusitania, and the war would have ended sooner.
    Either the peace treaty would have been the same as our timeline, causing world war two to still take place or more lenient which could've avoided the second world war.
    If Teddy won we might have seen the two term limit earlier, so if world war two had happened FDR would probably not have been president during ww2.
    Heck, the Republicans might still be dominant today and far more progressive/liberal.

    • @shittin_on_the_job
      @shittin_on_the_job 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I see that you also watch alt. History Hub

  • @mykellayne
    @mykellayne ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good job on this video, this election was a strange one, a lot of these facts a didn't know.

  • @mayor6366
    @mayor6366 4 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    I could imagine someone making a satirical, political comedy about this election

  • @durizle265
    @durizle265 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    This election could seriously be a movie

  • @moxxy8626
    @moxxy8626 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Eugene V. Debs is the one politician I can look up to

  • @warreng.harding6628
    @warreng.harding6628 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    If Roosevelt ran with the Republicans, Taft wouldn’t be nominated and Roosevelt would’ve ran head to head with Wilson and win.

  • @forgetful9845
    @forgetful9845 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    this election is like a crazy story omg

    • @jakubpociecha8819
      @jakubpociecha8819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      To be fair,it was a crazy story

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jakubpociecha8819 it is tbh

    • @jakubpociecha8819
      @jakubpociecha8819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@forgetful9845 Indeed

    • @forgetful9845
      @forgetful9845 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@jakubpociecha8819 we're reading a about progressivism in apush rn

    • @jakubpociecha8819
      @jakubpociecha8819 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@forgetful9845 Cool I guess

  • @K.C.-Games
    @K.C.-Games 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    Fun fact for people who think Wilson would beat Roosevelt if the vote did not split well wrong Roosevelt would win since he might get all the Taft votes which add up to 50% and might win the election because he is the most popular candidate in the election

    • @michaelsuder3956
      @michaelsuder3956 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Kyle & Chung that’s opinion not fact

    • @kylethomas2993
      @kylethomas2993 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      @@michaelsuder3956 its an opinion but Roosevelt would have been the favorite for sure imo

    • @Lewishhhh
      @Lewishhhh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Wrong

  • @Deejaynerate
    @Deejaynerate 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Mr. Beat: "This was the election that was completely and utterly messed up."
    2020: "Allow me to introduce myself."

    • @uRDM
      @uRDM ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Recency bias. 1912 was definitely way worse

    • @nicholasimholte7359
      @nicholasimholte7359 ปีที่แล้ว

      Uh, what? 2020 was completely normal.

  • @Frahamen
    @Frahamen 8 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    It seems Clark wasn't a Champ after all...

  • @jbandfriends-gh5bl
    @jbandfriends-gh5bl 6 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    You forgot butler the person who was tafts running mate after sherman dies

  • @danielmitchell1795
    @danielmitchell1795 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It’s also worth noting that William Jennings Bryan would become Wilson’s Secretary of State

  • @TimmyTheTinman
    @TimmyTheTinman 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    I'm glad to say my home state of Pennsylvania voted for the Bull Moose! As you can tell I'm a bit of a fan.

  • @oltedders
    @oltedders 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    The music was perfect for this video.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Rather than get down hearted, Taft seems like he was glad to be leaving the Presidency. On the day of Wilson's Inauguration in March 1913, he had a huge smile on his face.
    As one of the Contributors to "The Presidents" put it:
    "So he had gone into the Presidency with a huge sweep and left in a most embarrassing way with only 8 Electoral Votes. But he didn't care, he was so glad as he said to step down and out, he didn't care at all,"

    • @neutral7786
      @neutral7786 ปีที่แล้ว

      Possibly because William howard taft would rather leave the Presidency to Woodrow wilson than to Teddy roosevelt.

    • @SiVlog1989
      @SiVlog1989 ปีที่แล้ว

      @neutral7786 I don't think it was necessarily Taft being delighted to hand over the reigns to to Wilson per se, but it was a symptom of how unhappy he was as President (in the previous episode, in the one that talked about the 1908 Election, Taft was described as much rather being on the Supreme Court than President). During his term, Taft, a normally jovial and light hearted man who knew how to poke fun at himself (his weight specifically), suddenly became grumpy and depressed with the result being that his weight ballooned to 335lbs. But with Roosevelt challenging him for the Republican nomination, Taft found himself in a situation where he couldn't really win. This was explained in one sentence by one of the contributors to The Presidents:
      "Taft may not have enjoyed being President, but he doesn't want to be bullied out of it by Teddy Roosevelt."
      The good thing is, eventually the two of them, Taft and Roosevelt, patched things up and became friends again until Roosevelt died in 1919

    • @Benjifan2000
      @Benjifan2000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      This is exactly why I hate Taft. He ran for president, making it where TR had to run as a third-party candidate and then was happy that he lost because he hated being president. Why did he bother running if he hated being president and was glad that he lost?

    • @SiVlog1989
      @SiVlog1989 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @emperorvalkorion1483 well, TR himself had a part to play in this. After his landslide victory in 1904, he publicly announced that he wouldn't seek another term and instead fully endorsed his good friend, Taft. He assumed that as they were best friends, that they shared the same ideas, that Taft would carry on with his policies. However, as shown here, that wasn't the case, Taft was his own person.
      Taft never wanted to be President in the first place, it was his wife, Nelly, who wanted to live in the White House and live the lifestyle of a First Lady. His discomfort in the Presidency manifested itself in his weight, already higher than average, ballooning to 355lbs. I'm sure he would have quite happily stood back and let someone else run for Office in 1912, but with TR's increasing criticism of Taft's Administration, Taft felt he was being bullied out of it and didn't want that to happen

  • @gregalmonte8
    @gregalmonte8 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Ah a rematch of the Eugene’s and the William’s

  • @morgankingsley8711
    @morgankingsley8711 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Despite winning no electoral votes, Debs DID win 4 counties nationwide (the most recent fourth placer to win *any*), and is to date the most recent fourth place candidate to win 5 percent or more.

  • @SiVlog1989
    @SiVlog1989 6 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Who certifies the electoral college count in the event of the death of the vice president?

    • @nerddragon2222
      @nerddragon2222 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Good point

    • @BigFatCock0
      @BigFatCock0 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Maybe speaker of the house if the order of succession applies. Not sure that it does though.

    • @afminto
      @afminto 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The president appoints a new vice president, who must be confirmed by Congress.

    • @astro_mapping1
      @astro_mapping1 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Before the 21st Amendment

  • @HonestIySam
    @HonestIySam 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    “Soon there was a clear split in the republican party between the more conservative leaning Republicans loved by Taft and the progressive Republicans led by Teddy Roosevelt”
    Mr beat giving us a 2024 spoiler 🤪

  • @awesomedayz3465
    @awesomedayz3465 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    1:42 "Hey, it's me, 2024. Hold my beer."

  • @mabuchikyouma7674
    @mabuchikyouma7674 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You forgot to mention that Wilson was the first president to have a PhD @Mr.Beat

  • @gaza7489
    @gaza7489 6 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Wow this aged well.

  • @antonfarquar8799
    @antonfarquar8799 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    you left so much out of this video OMG like Wilson was the favorite of JP Mogan who financed his campaign and who also financed Theodore Roosevelt's campaign. Wonder why? hmmmm

  • @pleaseenteraname1103
    @pleaseenteraname1103 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    This is my favorite presidential election in American history.

  • @S0P2024
    @S0P2024 3 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    It's amazing that there were actually 3 Presidents in one election

  • @johnjones3813
    @johnjones3813 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    TR should have run again in 1908, technically he would have been within the unwritten two term tradition. He took over for another president the first term. Granted, very early on in the term.

  • @bensonfang1868
    @bensonfang1868 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    2:05 governors of New York and California-the actual realistic ticket for a modern progressive party.

  • @nicholasimholte7359
    @nicholasimholte7359 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wilson's 32.8 in Idaho is the smallest plurality in US presidential history.

  • @overboard7066
    @overboard7066 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    You forgot that there were I think about six states that Eugene Debs actually placed in third.

    • @GreenArt4
      @GreenArt4 ปีที่แล้ว

      Even placed second in Florida!

  • @thatguywhosayshi7021
    @thatguywhosayshi7021 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    The way Teddy and Tafts pictures are taken makes it look like Taft is in alt skin of Teddy in a fighting game

  • @feckemine
    @feckemine ปีที่แล้ว +5

    eugene debs is such an interesting figure in history. especially when you look at it from a hoosier pov. what is quite possibly the most influential US socialist figure...came from indiana, a historically anti-communist anti-socialist state. crazy to me

  • @footballdays5548
    @footballdays5548 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    fun fact
    all these president year of birth are by one year
    debs 1855
    wilson 1856
    taft 1857
    roosevelt 1858

  • @thatsabingo6695
    @thatsabingo6695 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Is it just me or does Woodrow Wilson look really intimidating

    • @jakubpociecha8819
      @jakubpociecha8819 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      To be fair,he does

    • @Danny-xm1pe
      @Danny-xm1pe 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      He looks evil because he is evil.

    • @miyunakii
      @miyunakii 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      definitely because of his potrait, smiling wasn't such a common thing when taking pictures back then

  • @alexandergodfrey83
    @alexandergodfrey83 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I'm curious as to why North Dakota and South Dakota did not vote for the same candidate. I believe it is the only election in which they differed.

  • @stargarden2577
    @stargarden2577 4 ปีที่แล้ว +31

    Theodore Roosevelt: Professional badass

  • @animationfanatic2133
    @animationfanatic2133 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a time to be alive

  • @robertthamby
    @robertthamby 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fun fact . Taft was a sworner in hoover,s inguration

  • @jamarcus8409
    @jamarcus8409 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Always liked this one and tbh something similar could happen soon as the Republican Party is looking pretty divided

    • @alec3000
      @alec3000 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Nah

  • @empireepic92
    @empireepic92 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    2:20 Still waiting on that

  • @mandydavis8507
    @mandydavis8507 6 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    T Rosevelt should have because A: he was young B: he should have at least won new York and/or ohio. I liked Teddy better than taft and Wilson. (no offence)

    • @weldin
      @weldin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +10

      It’s okay. I don’t think Taft or Wilson will take offense, given that they’re dead n’ all.

    • @Sceptonic
      @Sceptonic 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @Sparticus Booker He was both

    • @askaboutmyprofilepic3758
      @askaboutmyprofilepic3758 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @Sparticus Booker jfk was young

  • @theggamer2824
    @theggamer2824 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Theodore Roosevelt: “I don’t have to win we both just have to lose.”

  • @Kylefassbinderful
    @Kylefassbinderful 4 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    3:51 I remember in Wayne's World when Alice Cooper mentions that factoid about Milwaukee electing the first ever socialist mayor in America. "Does this guy know how to party or what?"

  • @InternetMameluq
    @InternetMameluq 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    4:11: Chafin, Eugene is definitely a real name.

  • @memecentral10
    @memecentral10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    I had no Idea Wildrow Wilson was a govener for my state lmao

  • @alexandergodfrey83
    @alexandergodfrey83 2 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    1912 was the last time North Dakota and South Dakota voted for different candidates. Any idea why?

    • @AFT_05G
      @AFT_05G 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Due to divide in the GOP, if it was Wilson against Teddy or Taft Wilson would've lost badly.

  • @TheChosennn
    @TheChosennn 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    1912: the most consequential election in American history all bc of an arrogant guy from NY

  • @DoctorEw220
    @DoctorEw220 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Oh Taft had a pretty good career after the loss.

  • @moonersa
    @moonersa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    "The titanic sank in 1912"

  • @ethanbarnes7163
    @ethanbarnes7163 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The 1992 election reminds me of this a lot.

  • @cosminblk8359
    @cosminblk8359 3 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    *Crazy fun fact* : Woodrow Wilson is the first president since James Monroe to serve 2 terms along the exact same vice president.

    • @kryptonianknight2344
      @kryptonianknight2344 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      That’s crazy to think about

    • @bonghunezhou5051
      @bonghunezhou5051 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Before Walter Frederick Mondale, vice presidents were generally considered electoral props rather than governing partners; Spiro Agnew and Nixon himself were nearly bumped off the party ticket, and LBJ surely would have been had Kennedy lived long enough!

  • @Egan9orTheRobloxian
    @Egan9orTheRobloxian หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think if Roosevelt won he would have become the first and only president to serve as president in two different parties (I think)

    • @Noobsweetpotatochip
      @Noobsweetpotatochip หลายเดือนก่อน

      Technically in Abraham Lincoln second term he served as a national union president after he won election (but he only changed once he won he won as a Republican) the other one was John Tyler who was ousted from his party as a democrat and became an independent.

  • @kritinjpaulraj
    @kritinjpaulraj 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Good ol times when conventions meant actual business and not some ceremonial event.

  • @mkl62
    @mkl62 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    November 13, 1912. The day that my paternal grandmother turned 26. And she and my grandfather were expecting their third child very soon. They already had 2 sons (my uncles). What would the 3rd one be?

  • @MrZilgen
    @MrZilgen 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    6:15 can anyone tell me why California had a separate district worth 2 delegates that went with Wilson?

    • @DebsEugeneV
      @DebsEugeneV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Faithless Electors

    • @DebsEugeneV
      @DebsEugeneV 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      And its not a separate district

    • @yakystamkanal1177
      @yakystamkanal1177 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@DebsEugeneV thx debs you are best president country never had

  • @FLSharky
    @FLSharky ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I know he was probably burnt out after three losses, but if ever there was a year for William Jennings Bryan to run, this was it.

  • @2H2521
    @2H2521 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    One crazy election! Teddy Roosevelt helped get Woodrow Wilson elected.

    • @neutral7786
      @neutral7786 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Teddy roosevelt didn't like Woodrow wilson. Teddy roosevelt's goal was to take revenge for William howard taft's ingratitude and betrayal, and he succeeded.

    • @2H2521
      @2H2521 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@neutral7786 He made a large mistake.

  • @iamsearchingforthefiletmignon
    @iamsearchingforthefiletmignon 4 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Jo Jorgensen says Woodrow Wilson is the worst president in the history

    • @fishy9465
      @fishy9465 4 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      Ew, Jo Jorgenson.