Roosevelt had broken with his former party at the 1912 Republican National Convention after Taft narrowly won re-nomination .
The split in the Republican Party made Democrats hopeful that they could win the presidency for the first time since the 1892 presidential election .
Roosevelt had broken with his former party at the 1912 Republican National Convention after Taft narrowly won re-nomination , and the split in the Republican Party made Democrats hopeful that they could win the presidency for the first time since the 1892 presidential election .