What did it do?
2007-11-27 10:49:01 · 3 answers · asked by Nat 3 in Politics & Government ➔ Other - Politics & Government
In 1912, the politically inconceivable happened: a third-party candidate very nearly won the Presidency of the United States. The candidate was former President Theodore Roosevelt.
The third party was the Progressive Party, better known and remembered as the Bull Moose Party after Roosevelt's declaration that he felt "fit as a Bull Moose."
Although Roosevelt did not win the election of 1912, he still stands as the only third-party candidate in modern American politics to have placed second in a Presidential election, receiving more votes than the incumbent Republican President William Howard Taft.
Teddy went on to become one of the greatest of our American icons, but his party soon faded from existence.
2007-11-27 11:02:19 · answer #1 · answered by BeachBum 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think that was the presidential ticket of Bullwinkle J. Moose and Rocket "Rocky" J. Squirrel
2007-11-27 18:53:26 · answer #2 · answered by davidmi711 7 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Wasn't that Teddy Roosevelt's party?
Yep, I was right.
http://www.theodoreroosevelt.org/life/bullmoose.htm
2007-11-27 18:52:20 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋