Candidates:Republican Party: William Howard Taft (Ohio) and James Sherman (New York)Democratic Party: William Jennings Bryan (Nebraska) and John Kern (Indiana)Socialist Party: Eugene Debs (Indiana) and Benjamin Hanford (New York) Election Results: Taft and Sherman: 7.67 million popular votes, 321 electoral votes. Bryan and Kern: 6.40 million popular votes, 162 electoral votes. Debs and Hanford: 420,000 … Continue reading Election of 1908: Roosevelt Abdicates to William Howard Taft