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Question: How was the election of 1916 similar to and different from the election of 2004!? !?
I have to answer this for school and all I could find or think of was that in 1916, a democrat won, and in 2004, a republican won; and that most of the speeches were about foreign policy and war!. Please help me!!!!Www@QuestionHome@Com


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From Shmoop's roaring twenties area:


http://www!.shmoop!.com/analysis/history/u!.!.!.

The Republican politics of the 1920s sprung from the repudiation of Woodrow Wilson, the only Democrat elected to the presidency between 1892 and 1932!. Wilson had never governed with the support of a majority of voters, winning office in 1912 only because two Republicans (popular ex-President Teddy Roosevelt and incumbent William Howard Taft) split the vote by running against each other, then barely retaining the presidency with less than half the popular vote in 1916!. Despite his dubious mandate, Wilson pursued aggressive reforms at home and abroad, culminating in the virtual nationalization of the economy during World War I and the ambitious internationalism of the League of Nations after the armisticeWww@QuestionHome@Com

Both were in a sense referendums on America's willingness to participate in war!. In the case of 1916 people endorsed Wilson's maintaining of neutrality and in the case of 2004 they endorsed Bush's waging of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan!.Www@QuestionHome@Com