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1912 Presidential Election Results Political Party Presidential Nominee Electoral College Popular Vote Democratic Woodrow Wilson 435 6,294,326 Progressive Theodore Roosevelt 88 4,120,207 Republican William Howard Taft 8 3,486,343 Use the table to answer the question. In 1912, voters sympathetic to Republicans split their vote between the Republican Party and the Progressive Party. Based on the table, how did this split affect the election results? a. The split left the Democratic Party with enough support to win the election. b. The split left the Progressive Party with less support than the Republican Party. c. The Progressive and Republican vote total prevented a Democratic win. d. The strong Progressive vote prevented a win for Theodore Roosevelt.

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a. The split left the Democratic Party with enough support to win the election.

Explanation: Roosevelt (Progressive) and Taft (Republican) together had more popular votes (about 7.6 million) than Wilson, but because their votes were split between the two parties, Wilson won a large majority of electoral votes (435) and thus the presidency.