[BroJoeK]

"...this unraveled Taft’s 2nd election chances."

Naw... Taft war road-kill due to collision with one these big boys:

[pepsionice]

Go back to the Pinchot-Ballinger controversy. Taft prior to 1909....was buddy-buddy with Teddy. After the episode, they were no longer friends, and Teddy returned in 1912 to run again. It’s a four-star story worth a movie how these two came to hate each other.