Good morning, Whitewater.
Thursday will be mostly sunny with a high of seventy-nine. Sunrise today is 5:53 AM and sunset 8:08 PM. The moon is a waxing gibbous with eighty-six percent of its visible disk illuminated.
Whitewater’s Landmarks Commission meets tonight at 6 PM.
On this day in 1912, Theodore Roosevelt accepted the nomination of the Progressive (Bull Moose) Party. He fell well short of Wilson in the November election, but ahead of Taft:
Roosevelt ran a vigorous campaign, but the campaign was short of money, as the business interests which had supported Roosevelt in 1904 either backed the other candidates or stayed neutral. Roosevelt was also handicapped by the fact that he had already served nearly two full terms as President, and thus was challenging the unwritten “no third term” rule.
In the end Roosevelt fell far short of winning. He drew 4.1 million votes—27%, well behind Wilson’s 42% but ahead of Taft’s 23%. (6% went to SocialistEugene Debs). He received 88 electoral votes, compared to 435 for Wilson and 8 for Taft.[13]
This was nonetheless the best showing by any third party since the modern two-party system was established in 1864. Roosevelt was the only third-party candidate to outpoll a candidate of an established party.
Google-a-Day poses a science question:
The founder of the annual medical science awards that are often called “America’s Nobels” is also considered the founder of what field?