Talk:1912 Republican Party presidential primaries

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This article seems to commence from a mid-point. What were the "Ohio discussions?"

Very important that we understand the events of 100 years ago to help us sort out what is happening with the GOP this year. For example, it is not clear from this article why Taft won the nomination, even though Roosevelt won the primaries. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Hmm1 (talk • contribs) 22:19, 9 April 2012 (UTC)

This Wikipedia page is based substantially on an overview of the 1912 Republican presidential primaries that I wrote in 2008 (found here: https://www.ourcampaigns.com/RaceDetail.html?RaceID=55164), although my article is not cited here. The Ohio discussions related to the law that provided for the presidential primary in Ohio in 1908 in which the ballots organized candidates for national convention delegate below the names of the two presidential contenders that year. I don't mind when people at Wikipedia use my articles, but especially when my article is copied and pasted here it would be nice to have my work at least cited as a source. Chronicler3 (talk) 00:52, 24 August 2020 (UTC)

Repair Underway

Going to try and untangle this mess. State results for the primaries below, till I figure where to put them. --Ariostos (talk) 18:59, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

New York is actually more of a guess, having subtracted every primary vote, except that of New York, from the total votes for each of the candidates. It came out (18,473 Roosevelt; 30,680 Taft; 5,444 La Follette) which despite their low totals, makes sense given the extreme difficulties they experienced that day in actually carrying out the primary, having no ballots at the polls, and having to produce ones on-site. --Ariostos (talk) 19:26, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

This is the reference I am using, or rather where I got the information. Here. If someone can place that as a reference on the main page, that would be great. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Ariostos (talk • contribs) 20:06, 26 January 2013 (UTC)

States by winner

		Theodore Roosevelt	Howard Taft	Robert La Follette
March 19	North Dakota	39.7%	3.1%	57.2%
March 26	New York	33.8%	56.2%	10%
April 2	Wisconsin	0.3%	26.1%	73.2%
April 9	Illinois	61.1%	29.2%	9.8%
April 13	Pennsylvania	59.7%	40.3%	0%
April 19	Nebraska	58.7%	21.5%	17.1%
April 19	Oregon	40.2%	28.5%	31.3%
April 30	Massachusetts	48.3%	50.4%	1.2%
May 5	Maryland	52.8%	47.2%	0%
May 14	California	54.6%	27.3%	18.1%
May 21	Ohio	55.3%	39.5%	5.2%
May 28	New Jersey	56.3%	40.5%	3.2%
June 4	South Dakota	55.2%	28.9%	15.9%

Temporary removal of non-convention delegates

Should we remove the figures of delegates that aren't related to the final total at the convention? Looking through Newspapers.com I find that the races were more similar to the Iowa caucus where delegates were voted on to then vote for the convention delegates. I bring this up because I noticed that the figures for La Follette add up to 39 and it is too difficult for me to easily determine which numbers are wrong. I think we should remove the numbers until we have definitive sources for the totals. Jon698 (talk) 09:21, 12 November 2022 (UTC)