Do you think that an Independent candidate will ever be elected President?

[ShadowRocket]

Ross Perot made a strong run in '92, and Mike Bloomberg has often been touted as a third party candidate for '08. So do you think that a candidate who isn't affiliated with either of the two major parties will ever be elected President? Will the discontent with both the Republican and Democratic Parties get to the point where voters will turn to an Independent candidate like Perot or Bloomberg?

[War on Want]

I think an "Independent" will win, but this party that the Independent would win in, would be a major party by this point.
I think that a Social Democratic/Democratic Socialist, hawkish Hispanic loving party will unseat the Democrats, who are relativley centrist, and the Republicans,who are super-conservative, in the near future after some sort of economic crisis.

[Person Man]

You mean a party of Hillary Clintons? I think if the dems lose, the dems will slowly begin to break apart and  there will be a huge global disaster (nuclear war, global warming, economic  depression). What will happen is that there will be a new nationalist-left party known as the Solidarity that will become the new establishment party for the next 70 years.

[Alcon]

You mean a party of Hillary Clintons? I think if the dems lose, the dems will slowly begin to break apart and  there will be a huge global disaster (nuclear war, global warming, economic  depression). What will happen is that there will be a new nationalist-left party known as the Solidarity that will become the new establishment party for the next 70 years.

That's...specific.

[Undisguised Sockpuppet]

HRC winning would be enough to blow up the 2 party system due to discrediting the dems right after the GOP'sd discrditing. We came VERY close to losing the 2 party system in both the 30s and 1960-1980.

[MarkWarner08]

If the House of Representatives agreed to uphold the will of the plurality, Mike Bloomberg could be the first third party candidate since Honest Abe to ascend to the White House.

[Хahar 🤔]

If the House of Representatives agreed to uphold the will of the plurality, Mike Bloomberg could be the first third party candidate since Honest Abe to ascend to the White House.

Third party for Lincoln? What was the second party, then? I hope you remember that the Whigs had already disintegrated by 1860. And no, I would not consider the Constitutional Union party a major party, or the Northern and Southern Democrats to be from different parties.