3rd Parties & Indepdent candidates

    Election 2008: The other presidential candidates. If you follow the news you’d think there were only four people left running for President. Not so, today a look at the role third party and independent candidates could have in this election. We’ll talk with DOUGLAS SCHOEN, who was the pollster for Michael Bloomberg’s mayoral campaigns, and is author of the new book The Beginning of the End of the Two Party System. Then we’ll talk with MICAH SIFRY author of Spoiling for a Fight: Third Party Politics in America, first published in 2002.
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