History Buff Compares California Governor Race to the 1912 Bull Moose Party Schism
The California governor race is shaping up to be a political earthquake with eerie parallels to the 1912 presidential election, when Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party split the Republican vote and handed the White House to Woodrow Wilson. Today, a similar fracture is emerging in the Golden State, where a third-party challenger is siphoning moderate Democrats and independents away from the establishment front-runner. Insiders are whispering that if this pattern holds, it could mirror the chaos of a century ago—when a divided majority party handed victory to a spoiler candidate no one expected. With polls showing a three-way race tightening by the week, don’t be surprised if this California governor race follows history’s script, where a fractured center makes way for an outsider king.