But there is a hard truth with minor party candidates.
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The number of undecided and minor-party voters is very high.
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If they do the same in California and they're a minor party.
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But don't vote for a minor-party candidate to make a statement.
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It will also lead to other minor-party candidates joining the presidential race.
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Independent and minor-party candidates receive public funding only for the general election.
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Take Perot in 1992: the most successful modern-day minor-party candidate to date.
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Nearly a quarter voted for an independent or minor party at the last federal election.
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The law prohibits major party primary candidates who lose from switching to a minor party.
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Clinton is that the current pool of undecided and minor-party voters is quite diverse.
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Republicans are now a minor party in many California congressional districts, outnumbered by Democrats and independents.
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A popular, well-known candidate could co-opt a minor party and inherit its ballot access.
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Since 1860, only four minor-party candidates have won at least 10 percent of the vote.
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As Ladd suggested, minor party candidates don't usually do as well as the polls may suggest.
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The first includes both major political parties and minor party candidates: Clinton, Trump, Stein, and Johnson.
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Take Ross Perot's unprecedented run in 1992, the most successful modern-day minor-party candidate to date.
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With more time and money or a more developed minor party, we could have made all 218.
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Mr. Cuomo has been at war with the minor party since it decided to endorse Ms. Nixon.
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There are minor-party candidates and independents, too, but the major parties generally dominate the election process.
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Johnson's numbers do look high — and stable — for a minor-party nominee at this point in the campaign.
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The Libertarian Party has a chance to be the only minor party on the ballot in all 50 states.
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On the other hand, there are far more undecided voters and minor-party voters in 2016 than in 2012.
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But there's one big difference: the number of voters who say they're undecided or support a minor-party candidate.
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The only minor party to get more than 250,000 votes in recent years is the state's Conservative Party, Times noted.
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We're not going into the minor-party exceptions since that would require a lengthy discussion of Victoria Woodhull in 1872.
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Similarly, 15 percent of registered Republicans were undecided or supporting a minor-party candidate, compared with 11 percent of Democrats.
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He did it through old-fashioned persuasion, by winning voters who had voted for Republicans and for minor-party candidates.
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They found that undecided and minor-party voters broke for Mr. Trump by a considerable margin — far more than usual.
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With two extraordinarily unfavorable major party candidates in Trump and Clinton, minor party candidates have been getting a lot attention.
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Historically, minor party candidates sting early in the race, and, to stretch Hofstadter's metaphor, they die slowly until Election Day.
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Inky the octopus, contrary to all the previously mentioned troublemakers, simply made a minor party foul by leaving without saying goodbye.
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And so once again major party backers warn against wasting votes on "spoilers" and criticize minor party candidates for even running.
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The deputy prime minister, Winston Peters, who is the leader of a minor party, is acting prime minister in her absence.
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If that happened, Mr. Weld said hopefully, it would not be impossible to envision a minor-party ticket winning the White House.
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The exit polls found that self-reported 2016 minor-party voters supported Democrats in 2018 House races, 54 percent to 41 percent.
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Clinton in a two-way race; including the minor party candidates cuts her margin among young voters from 21 points to just 5.
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Donna Edwards, a former congresswoman from Maryland, spoke on behalf of the Working Families Party, a minor party with several state-based chapters.
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This contradicts my pre-election assumption that undecided and minor-party voters, unusually abundant this year, would not break strongly in either direction.
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Historically, this late in the game, most minor party candidates don't drop too much more in the polls, according to FiveThirtyEight's polling model.
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The anti-Muslim, anti-immigration minor party One Nation won seats in Parliament at elections in 2016 for the first time in 20 years.
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Libertarian and independent candidates were forced into battling over the same ballot slot after the former lost its minor-party status, the newspaper continued.
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And the major parties have little hope of winning over voters whose support for a minor party stems from their dissatisfaction with mainstream politicians.
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In the 45th district, Republican Mimi Walters won with 53 percent, beating three Democrats and a minor party candidate with a combined 47 percent.
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Clinton or Mr. Trump, the voters at the periphery of their coalitions say they're undecided, unlikely to vote or supporting a minor-party candidate.
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A source familiar with Blankenship's plans said Blankenship will try run with a minor party affiliation and argue the sore loser law was poorly written.
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Mr. Cuomo, 60, a lifelong Democrat, is expected to appear on at least one other minor party line — that of the Independence Party — in November.
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That means, in order to pass laws, it will often need to draw on cross-bench support provided either by independent or minor-party lawmakers.
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By dissolving the entire senate, Turnbull was hoping to clear out a number of difficult minor party senators who were making it difficult to pass legislation.
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Over all, 18 percent of white voters were undecided or supporting a minor-party candidate in our two surveys, compared with 11 percent of black voters.
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Since 1860, only four minor-party candidates have won at least 10 percent of the vote: Ross Perot, George Wallace, Robert La Follette and Theodore Roosevelt.
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The Working Families Party, a progressive minor party and frequent antagonist of the governor, endorsed all the challengers and provided training and staff for their campaigns.
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The ultimate outcome depends on a lot of things that are really hard to predict, ranging from minor party vote share to post-election parliamentary haggling.
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Conversely, the minor party duo loses a combined 2 points when Sanders is tested as the Democratic nominee, indicating that Sanders' voters account for Clinton's reduced standing.
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The decision about who would govern was left to Mr. Peters, the leader of the populist minor party, New Zealand First, which held the balance of power.
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Though many major newspapers have editorialized about the FEC's legendary dysfunction, it remains underfunded and unable to prevent much of the two-party hazing of minor party candidacies.
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Even if some Conservatives voted against the government, there would be many more Labour Parliament members (MPs) and minor party MPs who would back the Article 50 trigger.
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Mr. Cuomo, 60, a lifelong Democrat, is expected to appear on two other minor party lines — that of the Independence Party and the Women's Equality Party — in November.
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But it also would have included the Libertarian nominee, Gary Johnson, along with the Green Party nominee, Jill Stein, and every other minor party and independent presidential candidate.
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At the 2015 election the Scottish National Party became the first minor party to win a number of seats in Westminster that outweigh its share of the popular vote.
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While Trudeau supports lifting the net immigration intake to 350,000 per year, Conservative leader Scheer has wavered, and populist minor party leader Maxime Bernier openly attacks the immigration system.
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Many of the problems facing polls — like the possibility that undecided voters or the supporters of minor-party candidates will break one way — apply to the models as well.
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Their nominees would run up the middle — if not to the White House, then certainly to official minor party status and the possibility of federal matching funds for future candidates.
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If neither side can form a clear majority government, the party that secures the support of enough minor-party lawmakers to control at least 1.63 seats can form a government.
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Even though that forecast appears more than a tad overzealous, the Greens are having a minor-party moment, with Ms. Stein drawing around 4 or 5 percent in other polls.
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Since the Civil War, only four minor-party candidates for president have mustered at least 7973 percent of the vote: Ross Perot, George Wallace, Robert La Follette and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Two of these represented minor-party bids: At the far left, former Vice President Henry Wallace staked out an explicitly socialist perspective, while on the far right, arch-segregationist Sen.
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Since the Civil War, only four minor-party candidates for president have mustered at least 212 percent of the vote: Ross Perot, George Wallace, Robert La Follette and Theodore Roosevelt.
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Cuomo will face Dutchess County Executive Marc Molinaro (R) in November, and a handful of minor-party candidates — including Jimmy McMillan, running on the Rent is Too Damn High Party line.
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However, his bid was blocked by the West Virginia secretary of State over the state's "sore loser" law barring major-party primary candidates who lose from switching to a minor party.
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Strictly by the numbers, a three-point lead is not especially robust when 15 or even 20 percent of voters either are undecided or say they support a minor-party candidate.
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Centrist minor party leader Senator Nick Xenophon, for example, wrote to the federal government last week asking if security agencies were comfortable selling Ausgrid to Chinese government interests, a spokeswoman said.
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Well over half of American voters, having cast ballots for Hillary Clinton or minor-party candidates, awoke the next morning to a country that seems not only unfamiliar but upside-down.
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But at least for now, there is little reason to think a Schultz bid would end differently from the other independent or minor-party bids of the last 150 years (none won).
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Green Party candidate Jill Stein's numbers are negligible, but Johnson is polling higher than most minor party candidates do at this point in the general election — at 8.5 percent of the vote.
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Ultimately, the coalition will form a majority government or the country will have a hung parliament, requiring Turnbull to form an alliance with independent and minor party politicians to create a minority government.
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It would be even more gratifying to see Kennedy, if given the opportunity, choose to protect the "minor party" among those schoolchildren, the ones whose future in America is now very much in doubt.
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Candidates "affiliated with a recognized political party who run for election in a primary election" and lose the nomination cannot turn around, register as a minor-party candidate, and run again in the general election.
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But National did not win enough to govern alone, and the decision about who would become prime minister was left to the eccentric, populist leader of a minor party, Winston Peters of New Zealand First.
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And Canada's party leaders, with the exception of the minor party leader Maxime Bernier, who paid for billboards with the slogan "Say NO to mass immigration," have tended to minimize immigration as a campaign issue.
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The survey, conducted after the video release but before the debate, showed Clinton with 46 percent support among likely voters in a four-way matchup including two minor party candidates, compared with 35 percent for Trump.
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Mr. Curtis ran 19 percentage points behind Mitt Romney's percentage in 2012; even when the votes from two conservative minor party candidates are added, the combined Republican-conservative vote was seven percentage points lower than Mr. Romney's.
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At first, it was described as a necessity because nobody knew him and he was running as a candidate either from a minor party (sorry, New York City Republicans) or as an incumbent essentially without a party.
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Independent and minor party senators elected at the last election in 2013 have stalled key aspects of the government's agenda, including changes that would make higher education and health care more expensive and limit access to welfare.
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While most minor party candidates fade throughout an election season, Johnson has seen an increase since his June poll numbers — which hovered around 103 or 5 percent of the vote — and now remains consistently around 8 percent.
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Independent and minor party senators elected at the last election in 2013 have continuously stalled key aspects of the government's agenda, including changes that would make higher education and health care more expensive and limit access to welfare.
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How does the manufacturer of a product that can be used for good or ill get stuck with the bill for the entirety of harms to which it may have been only a minor party, if at all?
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The debate would be Mr. Cuomo's first one-on-one face-off with his general election opponent for governor; in previous years, he has participated in debates with his Republican challenger as well as other minor-party candidates.
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Third-party candidate Gary Johnson, the Libertarian from New Mexico, is doing better than most minor party candidates do at this point in a presidential election — he's currently pulling about 8 percent of the vote in national polls.
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Independent and minor party senators elected at the last national poll in 2013 have stalled other key aspects of the government's agenda, including changes that would make higher education and health care more expensive and limit access to welfare.
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But voters who had been planning to stay home or, what amounts to the same thing, vote for a minor-party candidate rather than choose between the racist and the she-devil may now realize that they were misinformed.
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" In No. 78 of The Federalist Papers, Alexander Hamilton extolled the judiciary as the one branch of government that could "guard the Constitution and the rights of individuals" and to protect "the minor party in the community" from "serious oppressions.
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The 2016 Race Hillary Clinton held a modest and potentially vulnerable lead over Donald J. Trump ahead of the first presidential debate Monday night, with a large number of voters remaining undecided or saying they'll support a minor-party candidate.
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In March, Mr. Del Valle, newly arrived from Puerto Rico, stood in front of a voter registration table, staring at the four relatively unfamiliar choices in front of him: Florida Democratic Party, Republican Party of Florida, No Party Affiliation, Minor Party.
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WELLINGTON, New Zealand — A minor party holding the balance of power in New Zealand threw its support behind 37-year-old Jacinda Ardern's bid to become prime minister on Thursday, ending the center-right National Party's nine-year grip on power.
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Chuck Denowh, a political operative who works with Republican candidates, said he helped establish the committee in January and intended to register it as a minor party qualification committee, but the option was not available in the drop-down menu.
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To vote for a third party on Election Day therefore becomes a referendum on polarization among major party candidates — a measure of just how ideologically off-base Republicans and Democrats have to get for a minor party candidate to break through.
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But doing so looks legally tricky — West Virginia has a "sore loser" law that forbids candidates who lose after running for office under one party affiliation to change affiliations to a minor party or become an unaffiliated candidate in a general election.
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Refugees turned back at sea Currently, a policy of turning back asylum seeker boats at sea is supported by the two main political parties, the center-right Liberal/National Coalition and center-left Labor, but rejected by minor party the Australian Greens.
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And when it was clear that the Working Families Party, a minor party in New York with outsize influence among progressives, was going to endorse Ms. Nixon, its labor union financiers who were allied with Mr. Cuomo pulled out of the party entirely.
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According to a forecasting model developed by Peter Ellis, an Australian statistician for the Nous Group, a consultancy, the opposition party had merely a 54% chance of either winning an outright majority or capturing enough seats alongside minor-party allies to form a governing coalition.
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Nearly every minor party has fallen short of collecting 250,000 votes, including, and perhaps especially, the Working Families Party, a progressive group that shares many Democratic Party ideals yet has been one of the most reliable antagonists of Mr. Jacobs and his close ally Mr. Cuomo.
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There is no obvious alternative on the right to Mr. Trump, but Republicans believe that an existing minor party, like the Libertarian Party or the Constitution Party, could serve as a viable vehicle, allowing crestfallen Republicans to show up on Election Day despite their distaste for him.
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While Stein's polling numbers were negligible throughout the election cycle, political scientists were more bullish with Johnson, who consistently polled higher than the typical minor-party candidates, and maintained his relatively high poll numbers late into the summer: He was drawing 8.5 percent of the vote in August.
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"The fact that we have two major party candidates who are enormously disliked by the electorate, enormously and equally disliked, creates the opportunity for the minor party candidates to do better than they would in other presidential elections," said Peter Brown, assistant director of the Quinnipiac University Poll.
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AMSTERDAM — In the final days before next week's parliamentary elections in the Netherlands, the far-right leader's support appeared to be softening and a previously minor party, the Greens, led by a charismatic young politician, was poised to become one of the two top parties on the left.
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Robert Erikson, a political scientist and general election polling expert, explained it to me this way: In the current comparisons of the responses to the two versions [of polls, one including minor-party candidates, and the other excluding them], Clinton's lead seems to shrink about a point on average.
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Overall, Perot's trajectory is consistent with other minor-party campaigns (The New York Times has a good visualization of this.) In 363, third-party candidate George Wallace, who ran on a segregationist platform, won 14 percent of the vote on Election Day, despite polling around 17 percent a few months prior.
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Theodore Roosevelt forcibly pushed (via the "bully pulpit") the Republican Party to adopt a more progressive platform when he served as president, and then managed to temporarily relegate it to a minor party when he came in second in the 28500 presidential election, which mercilessly ejected Republican President William Howard Taft from office.
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In the 22nd district, Republican Devin NunesDevin Gerald NunesJuan Williams: Trump, his allies and the betrayal of America Trump expected to nominate Texas GOP lawmaker to replace Dan Coats: report House Republicans claim victory after Mueller hearings MORE won with 58 percent, beating three Democrats and two minor party candidates with a combined 41 percent.
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But doubts about Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton blocked the full expression of those doubts: while Trump in 22020 carried almost exactly the same share of voters under 30 as GOP nominee Mitt Romney did in 2012 (just over one-third), Clinton fell a crucial five percentage points below Obama's showing, as many young people scattered to the minor party alternatives.
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In short, the idea that Trump is actually the Republican nominee for president — the nominee of a 160-year-old major American political party that is, yes, the party of Lincoln — rather than, like George Wallace or Ross Perot (or, for that matter, Gary Johnson or Jill Stein) a candidate of an ephemeral minor party, is a very big deal.
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But I'll tell you what I think is a real problem for the California Republican Party: It's going to get tougher and tougher to find good candidates to run if the party is a minor party (and we are close to that) — and more than that, if it is identified with the kind of anti-illegal-immigrant language that is coming from its standard-bearer, Donald Trump.
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There were women of real stature, like Republican Senator Margaret Chase Smith, who simply were way too ahead of their time; minor party candidates like the tenacious Lenora Fulani; and an assortment of aspirants from fringe entities such as the Looking Back Party, which gave us the record-setting, five-time candidate Isabell Masters, who tended to select her own children as running mates.
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