"Ideas, especially those born on the campaign trail, rarely turn out as planned. In the long view of history, Wilson's victory mattered not because his presidency bequeathed a regulatory regime so different from what Roosevelt would have overseen, but because progressivism itself prevailed. From one perspective, the most important fact about the outcome was that Taft, representing the stand-patters, finished third—the only incumbent ever to seek re-election and do so."
David Greenberg in Slate considers the differences between Theodore Roosevelt's New Nationalism and Woodrow Wilson's New Freedom during the 1912 election.
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