THIRD PARTY POLITICS A TICKET TO OBSCURITY

By Nathaniel Luce

Publication: CQ POLITICS

Third-party candidates are having a difficult time attracting voters because the mainstream candidates this year are more appealing to independents. “It’s probably a more-difficult-than-usual year because the two parties for the first time in a long time have thrown up candidates that people sort of like,” says BRUCE BARRY, a professor of management and sociology at Vanderbilt University who moderated a third-party debate there this month.