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What was the effect of the Bull Moose Party’s entrance into the presidential election of 1912?
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By splitting the Republican vote between Theodore Roosevelt (Bull Moose/Progressive) and incumbent William Howard Taft (Republican), the Bull Moose Party handed the election to Democrat Woodrow Wilson. Wilson won a decisive electoral-college victory despite receiving only a plurality of the popular vote; the Progressive bid also weakened Republican unity and the party’s dominance.
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