The B.O.W (Blog of Wrestling)

  Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election series as will be discussing the election of 1920, two dark horse candidates battle it out to see who will lead the United States as commander and chief going into a new decade and a period of growing instability...So with that all said, let's get into it. The Fallout from World War One As you may recall from the 1916 election article, Woodrow Wilson won re-election on the promise to keep America out of the war and continue a sense of neutrality  that was going on at the time...well like most politicians who end up getting elected to high office, the president went back on his campaign promise and got the United States involved in World War One. The decision to get the U.S. into the war was already in the minds of many especially after the sinking of the RMS Lusitania,  but things changed upon the discovery of the Zimmermann Telegram which was a letter that basically saw the Germans asking Mex...

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...

Intro: Hello and welcome back to another edition of the presidential election series as I'll be talking about the election of 1912 and this one has everything you could possibly imagine: multiple candidates, bad blood and an assassination attempt on the campaign trail...So strap yourselves in folks, because this race going to be a crazy one. The Presidency of William Howard Taft After winning the election of 1908 mainly due to being Roosevelt's handpicked successor, the newly elected President Taft was now in a position he never wanted to begin with, but attempted to make the best out of it. Taft's time in office came be divided in a three categories:  Foreign Affairs Domestic Policies Issues within his administration Let's start with the foreign policies...President Taft made a staunch effort to not use military force in order to spread American influence aboard, but instead he wished to use arbitration in order to settle issues that would make both sides happy and als...