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Theodore Roosevelt and his running mate, Hiram Johnson, win a narrow victory to become the first President and Vice President of the Progressive Party. The electoral college vote is Roosevelt 278, Woodrow Wilson, Democrat 233, Willam Howard Taft 20. (For this ATL I have taken the OTL results here: http://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/data.php?year=1912&datatype=national&def=1 and for each state increased the vote for Roosevelt by 10 percent, and decreased the vote for Wilson by 8 percent and the vote for Taft by 2 percent. On that map Democrat is red or pink, Progressive is green and Republican is blue).

Newspaper cartoons show a triumphant bull moose standing next to a prostrate elephant and a disappointed looking donkey.

Who is likely to be in Roosevelt's cabinet?

During the new administration the reforms laid down in the Progressive party manifesto are enacted. An amendment to the Constitution (I don't know which number amendment) extending the franchise to all adult women is ratified in 1914.

In this ATL I don't know if Roosevelt will run in 1916.
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