American campaign advertising by Autumn Portlock https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit Made with love en-us 2017-02-16 18:56:26 UTC 2025-12-24 00:47:37 UTC hello@padlet.com 7. 1912- WilsonIn this exhibit, there is a Campaign Button that opens up a module on the 1960 campaign. Ask students to look at the different posters, buttons, stickers, and audiovisual clips of advertisements, speeches and debates to think about how Kennedy’s campaign presented Kennedy to the voters. aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154427558 2017-02-16 18:58:58 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154427558 6.1912-DebsUnlike what we are used to today, the 1912 election boasted not two but four candidates representing four different political parties: Republican nominee William H. Taft, Democratic nominee Woodrow Wilson, Progressive nominee Theodore Roosevelt, and Socialist nominee Eugene V. Debs. aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154428016 2017-02-16 19:00:02 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154428016 51948-TrumanIn the State of the Union Message on January 7, 1948, I spoke of five great goals toward which we should strive in our constant effort to strengthen our democracy and improve the welfare of our people. aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154428789 2017-02-16 19:01:54 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154428789 4. 1960-KennedyNixon struck many voters as more mature and experienced than Kennedy and led in the polls after the national conventions. aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154429292 2017-02-16 19:03:13 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154429292 3. 1964-GoldwaterCentral to the 1964 campaign was race relations, particularly with the passage of the landmark Civil Rights Act of 1964, which Johnson signed into law in July and which was intended to end discrimination based on race, colour, religion, or national origin. aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154429698 2017-02-16 19:04:21 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154429698 2.912-RooseveltWilliam Howard Taft and Theodore Roosevelt had once been friends. But when the Republican Party met in Chicago to choose its presidential candidate in June 1912, the nomination battle between the two men was brutal, personal—and ultimately fatal to the party's chances for victory in November. aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154430063 2017-02-16 19:05:20 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154430063 1.900-MckinleyThe 1900 election saw a rematch of familiar political foes: William McKinley and William Jennings Bryan once again faced off for the highest office in the land. After winning the Republican nomination by acclamation, the McKinley and Roosevelt would go on to win the 1900 election in a landslide aportlock402723 https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154430567 2017-02-16 19:06:50 UTC https://padlet.com/aportlock402723/dckwqq2qxlit/wish/154430567