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Ross Perot

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Third Parties

How Third Parties Die

This is what it looks like when a political party's branches start to go their own way.

Jesse Walker | 1.24.2023 6:00 AM

Large image on homepages | Brooks Kraft LLC/Sygma via Getty Images

History

Would We Have Been Better Off With Perot?

An alternative history of America after 1992

Jesse Walker | 5.1.2019 12:00 PM

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Reasontv

Don't Fear Independents Like Howard Schultz! Politics Should Be More Like a Starbucks Menu

There are more forms of hepatitis than there are major parties in America.

Nick Gillespie and Mark McDaniel | 2.7.2019 2:56 PM

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Howard Schultz

Howard Schultz's Prospects: Ballot Access Promising, Other Fundamentals Not So Much

The Starbucks magnate is rich and early enough to buy his way onto ballots, but it's hard for a relative unknown to beat the third-party boomerang effect in a time of centrism-hating polarization.

Matt Welch | 1.30.2019 4:53 PM

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