halogamer1989 on 08 September 2009
| Kasz216 said: But a third party has won the presidency before Halogamer. A third party your very familiar with. Well they aren't a third party anymore. Bull Moose almost pulled it off too... and should have if they didn't get screwed by backdoor politics. Teddy Roosevelt was one of a kind though. An extreme moderate so to speak. He was a moderate but he wasn't middle of the road in the way he acted unlike current passive moderates. |
Whigs? They were were the major party against the Jacksonian Dems in the 2nd Party System. For Bull-Moose Teddy got 88 electoral votes to Wilson's 435 and Taft's 8. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_presidential_election,_1912
Teddy was an uber progressive. He would run as a reformist, pro-welfare Democrat if he were alive today.
