The 2000 presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. The contest was between Republican candidate George W. Bush, who was the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore, the incumbent vice president, as well as various third-party candidates including the well-known ( Read more... )

History has shown that while no third party candidate has ever won a Presidential election, these candidacies can affect the electoral calculus, though no one can ever be certain precisely how, since it is unclear who each of those casting a ballot for a third party candidate would have voted for if their candidate of choice was not in the race, or ( Read more... )

Jill Stein may have never held elected office above the local level, but she has influenced those concerned about the environment into taking action, both politically and as protesters. She has twice run for President of the United States and has been a major influence in the Green Party movement in the United States ( Read more... )

The 2000 presidential election was held on Tuesday, November 7, 2000. The contest was between Republican candidate George W. Bush, who was the incumbent governor of Texas and son of former president George H. W. Bush and Democratic candidate Al Gore, the incumbent vice president, as well as various third-party candidates including the well-known ( Read more... )

The Commission for Presidential Debates (CPD) dream a lot of criticism after it excluded Ross Perot from the 1996 presidential debates and this led the the need to better define the candidate selection criteria. Professor Richard Neustadt, the chair of the CPD's Advisory Committee as cautious however. He told the CPD, "If the new criteria make it ( Read more... )

Politics has become viciously polarized in recent times to the point where it has become very difficult for a third party candidate to gain any traction. The infusion of big money into the political process, especially since the Supreme Court decision in Citizens United, has left the two major political parties beholden to the special interest ( Read more... )

John Anderson was a ten-term Republican Congressman from Illinois who ran as an independent candidate for President in 1980, under the banner of the National Unity Party. He acquired a populist following both from Democrats who were frustrated with President Jimmy Carter's handling of the economy, and from Republicans who distrusted their party in ( Read more... )

Dr. Jill Stein was the nominee of the Green Party for President of the United States in the 2012 and 2016 elections. She was also the party's candidate for governor of Massachusetts in 2002 and 2010. Born in Chicago, Illinois, Dr. Stein was raised in Highland Park, Illinois. She was raised in a Reform Jewish household, and attended Chicago's North ( Read more... )

One of the more recent liberal or progressive third party candidates was consumer advocate Ralph Nader. He is a lawyer, a political activist, an author and lecturer, best known for his strong advocacy in the areas of consumer protection, environmentalism, and government reform. Born in 1934, Nader is the son of Lebanese immigrants to the United ( Read more... )

John Anderson was a ten-term Republican Congressman from Illinois who ran as an independent candidate for President in 1980. He acquired a populist following both from Democrats who were frustrated with President Jimmy Carter's handling of the economy, and from Republicans who distrusted their party in the era after Watergate and who did not want ( Read more... )