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Roosevelt versus Taft in 1912?

I am doing this project thing for social studies and I need help badly. do you know anything about teddy Roosevelt and Taft in 1912. I need help. some evidence on how Roosevelt’s is a better candidate then Taft basically like Roosevelt bashing Taft

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Here’s some information I found, I’m afraid I didn’t pay enough attention in political history class..

Taft was no Roosevelt, and his administration did not go smoothly. The majority Republican Party was split into two main factions, the conservatives and the progressives. Roosevelt was a progressive, as was Taft. While Roosevelt was known as the great “Trust Buster,” Taft actually started four times as many anti-trust lawsuits in his one term as Roosevelt had in two terms, giving him a rate of anti-trust actions eight times that of Teddy. But Taft did not have the political instincts or ability of self-promotion that Teddy had, and so he did not get the credit from progressives that he deserved. Whereas Teddy had taken on the conservatives, using his great popularity and marketing ability, Taft was forced to compromise with them on a number of issues to gain their support on others he considered more important.