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We can look at the same election
還是同一場大選
Yeah look at this again, stark geographical divide
再次來看全國的縣級地圖，我們看到明顯的地理分化
Well we can see The Democrats getting virtually no support in the West and the northest, just a scattering of counties
民主黨人在西部和東北部幾乎得不到任何支持，只有些零星的縣支持它
And again you can see South Carolina with it's distinctive pattern of overwhelming support for the Democrats conservative party at this time
同時你會發現南卡羅來納仍然堅定不移地以極高支持率傾向這次大選中保守的民主黨
1908,Theodore Roosevelt had pledged he wouldn't seek another term, he didn't
1908年，西奧多承諾不再參選、不再尋求連任
He actually had a handpick successor to a certain extent, William Howard Taft
但他欽點了一位繼承者——霍華德·塔夫脫
who probably didn't really want to be president, Taft wanted to be a supreme court justice
其實他并沒有要當總統的意愿，他想成為一名高級法院的法官
He had to end up there, he was sort of reluctant
他不太愿意放棄這個夢想去當總統
Roosevelt thought that he was a progressive and will continue in the progressive line
而西奧多認為他是個進步主義者，會將他推行的進步主義繼續發揚光大
The Democrats had been so thoroughly defeated 4 year earliers, They went back to William J.Bryan
民主黨人經歷了4年前的徹底落敗后，這次再次提名布萊恩
who now is reinventing himself as a sort of progressive in some aspects
布萊恩這時正將自己重塑為一個在一些方面持進步觀點的形象
He gets some silver states, he gets his home states in Nebraska again
他獲得一些銀礦州的支持，并重獲了家鄉內布拉斯加的選票
but by and large doing worse than he had before
但這次總體上選情比他之前的更糟
so it looks like the high tide for the progressive movement, but what happens
由此可見當時進步運動精神之高漲。然而大選過后呢
what happened was disappointed to Roosevelt
塔夫脫的表現讓西奧多非常失望
Taft betrayed him, Taft betrayed the progressive agenda according to Theodore Roosevelt
他辜負了西奧多的期望，擱置了共和黨的進步計劃，西奧多說
