Stranger Things Have Happened:The Underated 3rd Factor in the Election

Ninety-Percent of voters in either the Republican or Democratic parties have already made up their minds as to whom they are going to vote for. Most major polls show that both candidates are "neck and neck" including the "swing" states. However, 90 million Americans are predicted NOT to cast any vote on election day at all. Is the electorate missing something? Perhaps something big and very important. It's the fact that there is a significant Third Party contingency that few of us have ever heard about. Why is this under-rated 3rd party so important even though, those individual candidates may not have a major impact themselves. Call it the "Ralph Nader effect", when Al Gore lost to George W. Bush. It was believed because of the extreme narrow margin of loss that Ralph Nader's name on the ballot took away votes from Gore giving Goeorge Bush the edge. If that doesn't jar your head, go back to Ross Perot who as a "populist" candidate captured the hearts and minds of Americans when George Gush, the elder and Bill Clinton ran for the 1992 election. The stark shock of his winning was a real possibility before he mysteriously bowed out. Today, there is actually a 3rd party candidate mentioned amongst the two dominant candidates. This 3rd party candidate is Gary Johnson of the Liberterian Party. But, others such as the Green Party candidate , Jill Stein, MD, The Justice Party Rocky Anderson and Candidate Goode of the Constitutional Party all represent this contingency. The threat to either Republican or Democratic candidate is that the combined 3rd party contigency's potential to sway that one percent (1 %) difference between the two major party candidates while the 90 million potential voters stay at home as a show of "no confidence" to the electorate may be real. Tuesday night, LinkTV aired a live debate amongst these four 3rd party candidates and will host a follow up debate between the two who wins a straw poll next Tuesday. Are these candidates trying to "really" have an impact on the electoral process? Do they really stand a chance? Or are they only trying to "mess" with the system's outcome? What if those 90 million voters who are NOT voting actually voted for them? It is believed that if something miraculously bizzare as that happened it would actually allow one of those candidates to win the presidnecy. But, what are the possibility of this even happening? How many American voters had even heard let alone known that these were legitimate candidates that are recognized by the Electorate. Could the "Nader Effect" or the "Ross Perot" out-of-left-field candidate come upon the scene? Jimmy Kimmel joked in his monologue that in an electoral presidential tie ; the tie goes to the senate party that has more seats which is the Republican senate, so they would take the presidency and the VP would go to the Democrats. Stranger things have happened.

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