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Article: Who's on third?(CANDIDATES)(Independent Party's presidential candidate)(Brief article)
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- The American Conservative
- Article date:
- November 17, 2008
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"All political lives end in failure," said the British politician Enoch Powell. This seems especially true for third-party presidential candidates. Once more, for all the dissatisfaction with red-blue politics, the also-rans gained little traction. No minor challenger--black/white, Left/Right, sane/not--broke 1 percent.
There were small improvements for the 2008 outsiders. Ralph Nader, that quadrennial bronze-medalist, came third again, with more than 650,000 votes, a sizeable increase from his 2004 score of 407,992. Closest to him, Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party nominee, notched over 487,000 votes, almost 100,000 more than the LP ...