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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe presidential election of 1908.
Why 1908?
Because that was the last year that the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.
The Republican convention was in Chicago that year.
Theodore Roosevelt, the Progressive, chose not to run that year and threw his support behind William Howard Taft.
Eugene Debs, the Socialist, was also on the ticket that year.
Taft won the Electoral vote by 321 - 162.
https://www.britannica.com/event/United-States-presidential-election-of-1908
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The presidential election of 1908. (Original Post)
kentuck
Nov 2016
OP
Interesting. I love history. However, Clinton/Kaine will have more than
AmericanActivist
Nov 2016
#4
JHan
(10,173 posts)1. Hillary Rodham Taft
liberal N proud
(60,336 posts)2. And the RNC was in Cleveland this year
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)3. Christie's not on the ballot
so there goes the Taft analogy
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)4. Interesting. I love history. However, Clinton/Kaine will have more than
321 EVs imho.