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One problem with a Third Party (and don't think I'm against it, 'cause I'm not) is simply the one of local politics. The Ds & Rs scale - they operate of local, regional, state and federal levels. There are lots of invisible "support" going on there, and one level feeds into the next. Any third party will have so much inbuilt political infrastructure to deal with. it becomes next to impossible. Look at the Green Party for example, or the existing Libertarians...they've been trying to crack that nut for decades.
Oddly, we came REAL close with Perot the first time around. He was leading both Bush and CLinton in the polls by a sizable majority. Then he went weird, dropped out, came back in, and picked that asstard for a VP pick, and it all went south. But Perot proved, that in the right circumstances a thrid party could gain a significant if not winning voting share in a national election. Of course, after whoever is elected, that person has to govern, and if you think we have a hard time with the Rs and Ds now in the WH and congress? Imagine a 3rd party candidate sitting at the Oval Office and trying to get both Ds and Rs to play ball with his agenda in Congress...
- Who was his VP pick? As a kid I loved him at the time. Had a "Ross For Boss" t-shirt.mg33