Since the inception of the 64-team tournament in 1985, each seed-pairing has played a total of 104 first-round games, with the following results: 1  The #1 seed is 104-0 against the #16 seed (100%). 2  The #2 seed is 100-4 against the #15 seed (96.15%).
Wilson's New Freedom platform, focused on revitalization of the American economy, won him the presidency with 435 electoral votes out of 531 and a Democratic Congress.
Many intellectuals increasingly challenged the foundations of the social order. Voices of reform thundered over the nation calling for democratic government, better cities, and the curbing of corporate power. This movement, labeled progressivism, found its first national leader in Theodore Roosevelt. Roosevelt actively pursued many of his goals: labor mediation, consumer protection, conservation, business virtue, and activism abroad. His successor, Taft, continued in Rooseveltâs aims but lacked his political genius.