Historically, third-party candidates have not fared well in the last century
The group has some headline backers, including former Senator Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Maryland’s former governor Larry Hogan.
No Labels is considering putting up a third-party candidate for president. Senator Joe Manchin (D-WV) and former Utah governor Jon Huntsman Jr., a Republican, who both attended the town hall, are two names that have been bandied about.
But historically, third-party candidates have not fared well in the last century. Teddy Roosevelt won 88 electoral votes as a third-party candidate in 1912, but he had already served as a two-term president from 1901 to 1909 and was a known commodity.
Former Alabama governor George Wallace won five states and 46 Electoral Votes in 1968, but he was a firebrand who drew support from the dying embers of Southern segregationists. In 1992, high-tech magnate H. Ross Perot won almost 19% of the popular vote in a three-way contest between Bill Clinton and George H. W. Bush, running on a platform that America needed a businessman in the White House.
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