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Originally Posted by AmeliaG
The more people who vote 3rd party, the sooner we will have somebody hit the 5%, and I do think the trend is in that direction now.
If a 3rd party fielded a show business candidate, I think they'd make it. At least 5% of Americans would vote for a President Harrison Ford or George Clooney etc. without even having to hear a political platform.
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I agree. Even if a third party was able to raise the money to get some decent advertising for a candidate.
The problem is that so many people think they don't have a chance of winning so they don't vote for them. They see it as a wasted vote. The reality is unless they can raise hundreds of millions they can't win the White House, but they can get 5% and get the matching funds. With that they can start to focus on local and state level elections. They can build up a grass roots support system that could one day offer a legit third party presidential candidate and in the meantime we have some third party people in lower areas of government that can help break the two sided gridlock that exists now.