Teddy Roosevelt was the most successful third party Presidential candidate in U.S. history, with his Progressive "Bull Moose" Party beating the GOP candidate William Howard Taft, though he lost to Woodrow Wilson in 1912.
But what if Roosevelt had won? Say Wilson had a stroke and died or was unable to run and the the progressives had the White House? Europe would have certainly gone down the same road into WWI, but what would have been Roosevelt's reaction? He was gun-ho for war with Spain in 1898 so would the doughboys been "Over There" in time for the Christmas Truce?
Thoughts?