WI: Theodore Roosevelt dies in Milwaukee in 1912

Were Roosevelt's votes in the states to go to Taft, Taft would have won by a comfortable margin. Roosevelt was a spoiler.


The proviso is impossible. TheTaft and Roosevelt people were deeply estranged, and even four years later were unable to reunite in sufficient numbers to prevent Wilson's re-election.

TR wasn't so much a spoiler as an alibi, giving the regular Republicans an excuse for a defeat they would have suffered anyway.
 
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Wilson wins, but Taft gets a bit of the sympathy vote, making it slightly closer. Debs does better, too.
 
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