Where’s the Third Party?

Jeff Greenfield notes “there’s one traditional sign of the season that has yet to appear: the emergence of a movement for an independent or third party presidential run. At a time when discontent with politics as usual is peaking, and when the structural barriers to a third-party run have effectively disappeared, the silence is deafening and in sharp contrast to the previous cycles.”

“This sure feels like a fertile soil for the growth of an alternative to the two parties that have won every election for the last 155 years; especially when there’s a substantial—let’s not call it ‘healthy’—prospect of a general election campaign between Clinton II and Bush III… And more important, two long-standing barriers to an effective third-party campaign have now been dismantled.”

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