Tale of Three Parties

The Tale of Three Parties is an alternate history timeline created by Lydmaxi. The timeline answers what might have happened if Theodore Roosevelt had won the 1912 election under the Progressive Party, completely upsetting the political establishment.

Point of Divergences
There are two PODs that affect this timeline.
 * Socialist Party nominee Eugene V. Debs decides not to run as he become dissatisfied with the US electoral system. Emil Seidel runs in his place but only gets 108,437 votes with his lackluster campaign.  The rest of the OTL Socialist voters mostly voted for Roosevelt with many of them believing that he would really shake up America.  The remainder either didn't vote or voted for Wilson.
 * William Taft becomes extremely unmotivated to run for president as he realized his chances were gone because of Roosevelt. He still runs but his campaign isn't that great resulting in many of the OTL voters to vote for Roosevelt.