1912 Election: Who Would You Vote For?

Here is a new thread! Who would you have voted for in the 1912 presidential election?

This election is perhaps one of the greatest the USA has ever had because there were 4 very interesting and colorful candidates. Woodrow Wilson, the Democrat, would probably not had one if T.R. did not run. Roosevelt ran because he was upset and his successor, William Howard Taft. Roosevelt actually tried to rest the Republican nomination away from Taft, but failed so Roosevelt ran under the banner of the new Progressive Party ("Bull Moose" Party). Making the election more interesting was Eugene V. Debs, a popular speaker who ran for the Socialist Party. In the end Wilson won in a landslide due to the divide, but it was clear if T.R. has not ran Taft would had won. Roosevelt still won more than Taft actually in terms of popular votes and states. Debs got less than 1,000,000 votes but he still won the strongest showing ever for a socialist party. So, 100 years after 1912, we will hold our own election in honor of it. Will our election repeat the real one or will T.R. or Taft come out or maybe Debs will spoil it. I personally would vote for T.R. actually.

Roosevelt was the nominee of the Bull Moose Party, not the progressives.

That was a secondary name to the Progressive Party. It became known that when Roosevelt made a speech calling himself a bull moose after getting shot in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Roosevelt was so pro war that as soon as the lusitania was sunk, war.

He wanted war with Germany no doubt, but Wilson was president at the time. I am not sure if this was true, but I believe he even wanted a command in WW1! Can you imagine T.R. charging across No Man's Land with fellow troops!? I think he might be a pretty good morale boost.

He wouldn't have waited that long.

I agree he probably would have pushed us to join the entente, aswell as intervene in Mexico.

So far T.R. is winning in a landslide and Wilson has only 1 vote, but can he catch up, and will Taft and Debs be left behind?

Yes, because Taft sucked and Debs is a dirty socialist.

I'd vote Roosevelt. He is one of the greatest presidents we have ever had. Wilson was pretty good, taft was meh, and socialism is stupid, so it's pretty clear option for me.

Roosevelt wins WAR WITH GERMANY.

LOL and we would probably be on Mexico's ass to even if they did not do much. Although, I still think it is too early to call.

And then the rest of Europe!

Until he was shot. Charges typically only ended in slaughter during the Great War, if I recall correctly.

Nothing can stop the Rough Riders!

Just like they charge up San Juan Hill. Who the heck voted for that dirty socialist idiot Eugene Debs?

Theodore Roosevelt 1912!

Leading a charge at a German machine gun wearing a bullseye on his helmet (unless he was too tough enough for one) while having a sign on his chest saying aim at me, seems like something Roosevelt would definitely do.

The moose cavalry will break the Hun lines!

I think seeing that moose would literally scare the shit out of a German soldier or two, if they were trapped with no ammo that is. They still might be scared in trench, but they can still shoot it.

Teddy FTW!He was the Bud Spencer of presidents!