The Election Of 1916: Woodrow Wilson vs. Charles Evans Hughes
Intro: Hello and welcome back another edition of the presidential election series as I'll be discussing the election of 1916, it's another presidential election to occur during a time of war and the incumbent president is gonna need to pull out all the stops to beat his opponent in what turns out to be one of the closest battles for the white house up to that point in time...let's get into it Wilson's Time in Office Before we get into the election itself, there's a lot of background info leading into this race that needs to be discussed, first let's talk about the presidency of Woodrow Wilson. As mentioned in the previous election article, Wilson won in a four way race for the presidency thanks to the Republican Party being deeply divided by the bad blood between William Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt leading to Wilson and the Democrats gliding their way to victory. After being sworn in, Wilson much like Roosevelt when he became president went on to make a