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 * Woodrow Wilson**

Woodrow Wilson was a member of the Democratic Party. He upheld and supported many of the progressive party ideas. He was also well known and respected for his “New Freedom” policy. The New Freedom policy promoted antitrust and tariff revision. It also encouraged reform in banking and currency. It was a policy that went against Theodore Roosevelt’s ideas of New Nationalism.


 * Theodore Roosevelt**

Theodore Roosevelt was a member of the Progressive Party. He was also the first president to be a conservationist. This won him much support in his first election in his 1901-1909 presidency. He was one again running for reelection in 1912. One of his better-known policies was the New Nationalism Policy. The main issue argued in this was human welfare against property rights. This also supported minimum wage laws for women and child labor laws. He believed that they were being exploited. This policy went directly against Woodrow Wilson’s New Freedom Policy.


 * William Taft**

William Taft was a member of the Republican Party. He had just been president from 1909-1913. He was running, like Roosevelt for reelection. He and Roosevelt were dead set against each other in the 1912 election. He had earlier been certified by Roosevelt as a genuine progressive. He did consider himself a progressive and supported many of those ideals.


 * Outcome**

The winner of the 1912 Presidential Election was Woodrow Wilson. He won b a landslide. Especially in the electorial vote.He got 435 of those votes. Roosevelt got 88, while Taft only got 8. Woodrow Wilson got 41.8% of the popular vote, Theodore Roosevelt got 27.4%and William Taft got 23.2%.