With the 2008 election now over, you may be interested in how some of the Third Party candidates fared in votes. The 2008 election, seemingly inspired by "change", failed to draw any attention to the leading third-party candidates. None of the leading candidates received 1% of the entire national votes. Ralph Nader, 5th time candidate for the Independent Party received the most third party votes scoring .55% of the national votes. His most significant race was in 2000 when received approximately 2,900,000 votes (2.74%) for the Green Party, and was accused of tilting the democratic votes away from Al Gore in the state of Florida (Village Voice).
The rest of the results are as follows:
Ralph Nader (Independent Party): 672,000 votes. (0.55% national vote).
Bob Barr (Libertarian Party): 500,000 votes.
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party): 180,000 votes.
Cynthia McKinney (Green Party): 145,000 votes.
Gloria La Riva (Socialism & Liberation Party): 7,333 votes. New York ballot only.
Roger Calero (Socialist Workers Party): 7,182 votes. New York ballot only.
(The Indypendent)
-A.G
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It's pretty hard for a candidate to get any votes when no one has heard of them. I mean most people know Ralph Nader because he has run so many times but I've never heard of any of the others. It didn't really even occur to me that someone else besides McCain and Obama were running until I saw how many names were on my ballot. The other candidates aren't even at the debates. Good or bad the elections do have a lot to do with who has the most money and can get their name and voice out there.
This is interesting. The third-party candidates were not spoken of very often in the election and I have not heard of most of them. Seeing the number of votes for the candidates is interesting. Considering the population of the U.S. the number of votes may seem insignificant, but since these candidates received so little media coverage the results are somewhat surprising
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