DBWI: What If Roosevelt had lost the 1912 election to Wilson?

Exactly what it says on the tin. What if Wilson had won the 1912 election? It was an extremely close fought election anyway, so I thought it would be interesting to see what people think would happen if Wilson had been president.
 

mowque

Banned
Can we have TR not run? OR at least not run with the Republicans? For the POD, which is rather important.
 

Baskilisk

Banned
Maybe if somehow you off'ed William McKinley early in his term, making Teddy president. He wins re-election, and viola. He certainly wouldn't run for a third term; he promised not too, and nobody ever could do it anyways...Not even his damned cousin.
 
They didn't? *checks map of Greece* You might want to retake World Geography there, my friend.

Then again, we probably wouldn't have had the National Education System if Wilson had been elected...
 
Wilson?

No integration for the Armed Forces while HE'S president. It may take until 1920, or even until the 1930's. Regardless, though, we'll integrate when the onset of the 2nd World War necessitates it.

Maybe we would have "switched sides" to fight for the Central Powers in the 2ndWW, though. We were pretty close to fighting for them in the 1stWW before deciding to remain neutral, so maybe we would have been on the winning side! At least he would have kept us out of the 1stWW.

Don't laugh, we had a lot of common interests with the Deutschreich, the Crown Prince's wife was an American, remember!

We coulda been on top o' the world!
 
Maybe if somehow you off'ed William McKinley early in his term, making Teddy president. He wins re-election, and viola. He certainly wouldn't run for a third term; he promised not too, and nobody ever could do it anyways...Not even his damned cousin.

OOC: Bad form, mate. A POD by the OP, while often unspoken, is often there in some form. And there is a trust system that the posters will follow it; that POD being 1912.
 
If Roosevelt had lost, the long process of electoral reform in the US could have been delayed because the two-party popularity-based system of the past would not have been replaced with the ideology-based three(ish)-party system we have now. Without the presidential elections of 1920, 1924, and 1928 being thrown into the House of Representatives, we might not have had the amendment that created the proportional double-sized Electoral College and the December run-off elections of 1932 on.

It's also unlikely the vast majority of state legislatures would have installed December run-offs and preference voting into their rules for state-office, House, and Senate elections during that long reforming period of the 1930s through 1960s.
 
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