Champ Clark - 2025 ACF Regionals

Question

The 1912 Democratic National Convention took 46 chaotic ballots to choose a presidential nominee. Answer the following about the candidates, for 10 points each.

[10h] This Speaker of the House from Missouri, who had close ties to urban political machines, was the favorite before the convention but failed to get enough votes because Southern delegates had a veto.

ANSWER: Champ Clark [or James Beauchamp Clark]

[10e] Southern delegates favored Woodrow Wilson over Theodore Roosevelt and this other candidate, who won the election of 1908.

ANSWER: William Howard Taft

[10m] The balloting took so long because of so-called favorite son candidates, including an Indiana governor with this surname. An initiative launched by a politician with this surname replaced one named for Henry Morgenthau.

ANSWER: Marshall [or Thomas Marshall; or George C. Marshall]

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Summary


California	2025-02-01	Y	3	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Florida	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	67%	33%	0%
Great Lakes	2025-02-01	Y	6	16.67	83%	67%	17%
Lower Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	13.33	100%	17%	17%
Midwest	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	83%	50%	17%
North	2025-02-01	Y	3	13.33	100%	33%	0%
Northeast	2025-02-01	Y	5	8.00	60%	20%	0%
Overflow	2025-02-01	Y	5	14.00	100%	40%	0%
South Central	2025-02-01	Y	2	20.00	100%	100%	0%
Southeast	2025-02-01	Y	3	16.67	100%	33%	33%
UK	2025-02-01	Y	10	14.00	80%	50%	10%
Upper Mid-Atlantic	2025-02-01	Y	6	15.00	67%	67%	17%
Upstate NY	2025-02-01	Y	3	10.00	100%	0%	0%

Data


UCLA	Claremont B	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley A	UCSD	0	10	10	20
UC Berkeley B	Claremont A	0	10	10	20
UCF C	Florida A	0	0	0	0
Florida B	UCF B	0	10	10	20
Florida State A	Valencia A	0	10	0	10
Carnegie Mellon A	Michigan D	0	0	0	0
Case Western A	Carnegie Mellon B	0	10	10	20
Ohio State A	Kenyon	0	10	10	20
Michigan A	Case Western B	0	10	0	10
Michigan State	Michigan C	0	10	10	20
Ohio State B	Michigan B	10	10	10	30
Liberty A	William & Mary	0	10	0	10
Virginia Tech A	Liberty C	0	10	0	10
UNC B	Duke	10	10	0	20
South Carolina	UNC D	0	10	10	20
Liberty B	Virginia A	0	10	0	10
Wake Forest	UNC C	0	10	0	10
Chicago A	WashU A	0	0	0	0
Chicago C	Chicago D	0	10	10	20
Illinois A	Chicago B	0	10	0	10
WashU B	Indiana B	10	10	10	30
Illinois C	Missoui S&T	0	10	0	10
Missouri	Illinois B	0	10	10	20
Carleton	Winona State	0	10	0	10
Wisconsin A	Minnesota B	0	10	0	10
Iowa State	Wisconsin B	0	10	10	20
Dartmouth A	Brandeis B	0	10	10	20
Brown A	Harvard A	0	10	0	10
BU	MIT A	0	10	0	10
Harvard B	Tufts A	0	0	0	0
UMass Boston	Brandeis A	0	0	0	0
Georgetown A	Georgetown B	0	10	0	10
Northwestern A	Iowa	0	10	0	10
Northwestern B	Notre Dame A	0	10	10	20
Notre Dame B	Notre Dame C	0	10	10	20
Purdue	Stanford B	0	10	0	10
ASU	TAMU	0	10	10	20
Texas A	Texas B	0	10	10	20
Georgia Tech B	Georgia Tech A	0	10	0	10
Georgia Tech C	Georgia Tech D	10	10	10	30
Vanderbilt A	Tennessee A	0	10	0	10
Cambridge D	Southampton A	0	10	0	10
Manchester	Cambridge E	0	10	0	10
Durham	Cambridge A	0	10	10	20
Oxford A	Imperial B	0	10	0	10
Bristol	LSE	0	0	0	0
Cambridge C	NYU C	0	10	10	20
Warwick A	Oxford B	0	10	10	20
Warwick B	Oxford C	10	10	10	30
Cambridge B	Sheffield	0	10	10	20
Southampton B	Imperial A	0	0	0	0
Cornell B	Maryland A	0	0	0	0
Columbia B	Johns Hopkins A	10	0	10	20
Columbia C	Maryland B	0	10	0	10
Rutgers A	John Jay College	0	10	10	20
Penn A	Vassar A	0	10	10	20
NYU A	Yale A	0	10	10	20
RIT A	Binghamton A	0	10	0	10
Cornell C	ESF A	0	10	0	10
Cornell D	RIT B	0	10	0	10