Introduction
Analyze the Cartoon
Key Points from the Cartoon:
- Former President Teddy Roosevelt ran as the Progressive Party candidate when he failed to win the Republican nomination.
- Woodrow Wilson was the Democratic candidate. He won the 1912 election due to a split in the Republican party.
- William Howard Taft, the Republican candidate, was the current president in 1912.
- Public vs Private Personas: Like most candidates today, these men had a public persona and rarely showed their true emotions to the voters.
- How Roosevelt feels: T.R. was so angry that he didn't get the Republican Nomination that he started his own party called the "Bull Moose" Party.
- How Wilson feels: Wilson was likely nervous running against two men who had already served as President of the United States.
- How Taft feels: Taft looks concerned for his party, due to the clear split in the Republican vote.
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