Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: Ko te mahere a Roosevelt ki te akiaki i a Hoover ki te rere mo te whakaingoatanga a te Manapori i taka i muri i te kii a Hoover i a ia ano he Republican, engari i whakatau tonu a Roosevelt ki te rapu i te whakaingoatanga tuarua mo te perehitini i te tau 1920. I muri i te wikitoria a Kawana James M. Cox o Ohio i te kōwhiringa perehitini a te rōpū i te
I te 1920 Democratic National Convention, i whiriwhiria e ia a Roosevelt hei hoa whakahaere, a, i tohua e te roopu a Roosevelt ma te whakamoemiti. Ahakoa i miharo te nuinga o te iwi ki tana whakaingoatanga, i whakataurite a Roosevelt i te tiikiti hei tangata totika, he Wilsonian, he aukati me te ingoa rongonui. I 38 noa iho nga tau o Roosevelt, e wha tau te pakeke ake i a Theodore i te wa i whakaingoatia ai ia e tana roopu. I whakarere a Roosevelt i tana mahi hei Kaiawhina o te Kaitiaki o te Navy i muri i te huihuinga a te Manapori, a, i puta puta noa i te motu mo te tiikiti a Cox-Roosevelt.