That was the closest ever to the Bull Moose performance in recent history.
Hmmmm...1912 was the closest a 3rd party candidate got to affecting the outcome of a presidential election?
Oh, I dunno about that...seems to me had all those idiot Nader voters gone to Gore we'd have had him and not Bush in the WH on 9/11.
And going back to 1968, anyone remember the American Independence Party, George Wallace, shit like that? That the difference in popular vote between Nixon and Humphrey was less than 1 percent?
Then there were the Dixiecrats and Strom Thurmond back in 1948, etc., etc...
Finally, back to Nads little "close" claim. Had TR not run under the Bull Moose Party, there would have been no split of the Republican vote and Wilson would more than likely not been elected.