Woodrow Wilson and William Howard Taft in nineteen-twelve were counterparts to Al Gore and George W. Bush in two thousand. There were others running for presidency as well, just as there are today, but for the purpose of this paper, we shall compare and contrast only these four. First, let us look at the issues of nineteen-twelve in comparison to the issues of today before we get to the actual presidential nominees. Prohibition was a …showed first 75 words of 598 total…

…showed last 75 words of 598 total…older than their opposites. Other than that, Bush and Taft did and do not have all that much in common. In conclusion, Gore and Wilson had and have more in common than Bush and Taft. The election of two-thousand will be just as close, if not closer, than the election of nineteen-twelve. Only time will tell if the candidates follow their counterparts. With the exception that Roosevelt is not here to split the Republican vote.