3rd Party State
ijohn57s:
What State will be the first to vote for a 3rd party candidate? When will it happen?
Josh/Devilman88:
Quote from: South AFRNC Chairman ijohn57s on August 09, 2004, 09:37:56 PM
What State will be the first to vote for a 3rd party candidate? When will it happen?
MS, AL, GA, LA.. that is if Rudy and Edwards in 2008 and Roy runs...
ilikeverin:
Minnesota.
ijohn57s:
Quote from: Governor ilikeverin on August 09, 2004, 09:51:17 PM
Minnesota.
When?
TexArcana:
Quote from: South AFRNC Chairman ijohn57s on August 09, 2004, 09:37:56 PM
What State will be the first to vote for a 3rd party candidate? When will it happen?
All states already vote for third party candidates.
I think your question is "Which state will be the first to have a third party candidate win that state?"
That has already happened too. Republican party (in the 1800's) Bluemoose party. Perhaps even a couple of socialist wins? I don't know too much history, but I'm sure a google search would turn up the answer - let's see.....
From wikipedia.
In the 1860 election, the Constitutional Unionists got nearly all of their votes from former southern Whigs, and managed to win three states - Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee.
The know-nothing party
The height of their success came in the Election of 1856, in which they threw their weight behind Millard Fillmore (a Whig who had been president from 1850 to 1852). Fillmore lost, but won 22% of the popular vote and Maryland's 8 electoral votes.
2 Progressive parties
Roosevelt ran on the Progressive Party ticket in the 1912 Presidential election. Roosevelt had the satisfaction of defeating Taft in the popular vote, and by a large margin of 88-8 in the electoral vote, but the split engendered in the Republican vote allowed Woodrow Wilson to win the presidency.
The second was formed under the leadership of Robert M. La Follette, Sr. of Wisconsin, another erstwhile Republican, in 1924. La Follette's politics ran toward the socialist end of the spectrum; he favored public ownership of railroads, etc. His run for the presidency under this ticket garnered 17% of the popular vote, but carried only one state (his native Wisconsin).
Dixiecrat party
Thurmond subsequently ran for President on the Dixiecrat ticket in the 1948 election, and carried the previously solid Democratic states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and South Carolina, receiving 1,169,021 popular votes and 39 electorial votes.
American Independent Party
The party was established in 1968 by Alabama governor George Wallace. Wallace was on every state ballot. Wallace and his running mate Curtis E. LeMay received 13.5% of the popular vote and 46 electoral votes.
So it appears that the first state to chalk up a win for a third party is the constitutionalist union party in 1860, and the last party to do so was the American Independant party in 1968.
The next most likely IMHO is WI with a Libertarian win. Maybe this cycle, maybe next. Might have to wait until Ed Thompson wins the governor's race, and people can accept that the world will not dissolve into anarchy if a Libertarian comes into power.
Whether we win or not, we aren't going away. We are close to a breakthrough. We are building our party from the ground up. We are now winning city and county elections on a regular basis, and state office wins are becoming more common.
We're here, we're near. Get used to it.
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