United States Presidential Election of 1912
Wilson won 435 electoral votes as Roosevelt's Bull Moose bolt split the Republican Party.
Overview
The most consequential third-party run in history: Roosevelt, denied the Republican nomination by Taft's control, ran as the Progressive Bull Moose, and the Republican split handed Democrat Woodrow Wilson a landslide, 435 electoral votes to 88 for Roosevelt and a mere 8 for Taft, despite Wilson's only 41.8 percent plurality. Socialist Debs drew 6 percent, the party's best. Wilson's New Freedom enacted the income tax, the Federal Reserve, and antitrust law, all from a minority mandate that the divided opposition made possible.
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