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Third Parties

The Author’s Corner with Zachary Michael Jack

Rachel Petroziello   |  November 5, 2024

Zachary Michael Jack is Professor of English at North Central College. This interview is based on his new book, The Strange Genius of Ignatius Donnelly: The Populist Who Debunked Shakespeare and Found Atlantis (Northern Illinois University Press, 2024). JF: What […]

American Christian voters and third parties: a historical overview

Daniel K. Williams   |  September 25, 2024

While third-party voting has never been the norm among American Christians, it has a long history.

Could we see a Manchin-Romney ticket in 2024?

John Fea   |  February 16, 2024

West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin may be launching a third-party bid for president in 2024 as the candidate of the bipartisan No Labels organization. And he also may be picking Mitt Romney as a running mate. Or maybe none of […]

Gallup: 63% of Americans want a third major political party

John Fea   |  October 10, 2023

Here is Jeffrey Jones at Gallup: WASHINGTON, D.C. — Sixty-three percent of U.S. adults currently agree with the statement that the Republican and Democratic parties do “such a poor job” of representing the American people that “a third major party […]

Michael Tomasky on the “quixotic” and “corrosive” Cornel West and RFK Jr. campaigns for president

John Fea   |  July 20, 2023

The editor of The New Republic thinks Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Cornel West, and No Labels “are effectively surrogates for Donald Trump’s 2024 bid.” Here is a taste of his piece: You might think, in a two-party democracy where the […]

Is West Virginia Senator Joe Manchin running for president?

John Fea   |  July 12, 2023

If Manchin runs as a third-party candidate there is a good chance that Donald Trump or another Republican will be the next president. Here is John Wagner at The Washington Post: Sen. Joe Manchin III (D-W.Va.) plans to headline an […]

Cornel West is now seeking the nomination of the Green Party

John Fea   |  June 15, 2023

Last week West was running as the nominee of the People’s Party. Now he is seeking the Green Party nomination, a party on the ballot in more states than the People’s Party. So far he is the only declared Green […]

Is fusion voting the answer to our political partisanship?

John Fea   |  June 8, 2022

Here is Blake Hounshell at The New York Times: When Chief Justice William H. Rehnquist, writing for the Supreme Court majority in a landmark 1997 case, rejected a minor party’s demand that it be allowed to nominate candidates who were already […]

Andrew Yang is starting a third political party

John Fea   |  September 10, 2021

After losing his bid for the 2020 Democratic nominee for president and dropping out of the New York City Democratic mayoral primary, businessman Andrew Yang is starting a new political party. Here is Alex Thompson at Politico: Yang is expected […]