Third Party candidates are surging in 8 states, Dems and GOPs are losing grounds!

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

Thanks for the thoughtful and thorough opinion. While I'm not sure that I completely agree with your assessment of the South, I enjoyed reading it.

I live in the South and I have relatives from the South. I also have family from the Midwest and I've lived outside of the South too. What I know about the South comes from having relatives who lived in the South long ago, what I've read in history, and what I still see today.

[grega94]

Originally Posted by WaldoKitty

This was the last time a 3rd party candidate won states and electoral votes. 1968.



Interesting about that 1 electoral vote in NC.












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Didn’t Wallace want to bring back segregation, and that’s pretty much the only reason why the south voted for him? There are different types of independents, glad he didn’t win that year.

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by grega94

Didn’t Wallace want to bring back segregation, and that’s pretty much the only reason why the south voted for him? There are different types of independents, glad he didn’t win that year.

Yep. That's why Wallace could only win some Southern states. And Wallace couldn't even win all of the Southern states. It was just the Deep South that voted for him. Tennessee, Kentucky, West Virginia, Virginia, they weren't on board with Wallace. North Carolina was hardly on board with him.

North Carolina managed 1 electoral vote for Wallace. Western and parts of central North Carolina supported Nixon. Eastern North Carolina is where the majority of Wallace's support came from.

I live in Georgia so I took at look. Wallace won Georgia, 42.7%. Nixon got 30.4%. Humphrey got 26.8%. Wallace won the vast majority of the counties. However, this is what I noticed.

Nixon won these Georgia counties: Fannin, Towns, Gilmer DeKalb, Whitfield, Richmond, Cobb, Union, Clarke.
-Fannin, Towns, Gilmer, Whitfield, and Union counties are all located in the far north of Georgia, near or in the Appalachia mountains.
-DeKalb and Cobb counties were the extent of metro Atlanta during the late 1960s (both east and west). Nixon barely won Cobb. 39% of the population in Cobb County supported Wallace and 41% supported Nixon. DeKalb supported Nixon to a tune of 50%. DeKalb is one of the most "Atlanta" counties of metro Atlanta.
-Richmond County, that's Augusta,GA.
-Clarke County is Athens, GA, home to University of Georgia.

[green_mariner]

On another note, this is what was written about Gary Johnson back in 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/u...ird-party.html

[nmnita]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

On another note, this is what was written about Gary Johnson back in 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/u...ird-party.html

didn't really turn out anywhere near the way the author thought it might, did it?

[RunD1987]

Originally Posted by green_mariner

On another note, this is what was written about Gary Johnson back in 2016: https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/05/u...ird-party.html

Voted for Gary Johnson

Had a lot of great stances on various issues

[green_mariner]

Originally Posted by RunD1987

Voted for Gary Johnson

Had a lot of great stances on various issues

I voted for Gary Johnson too.

I read the article. It mentioned that Johnson had alot of appeal with people under 50. It also mentioned that Johnson had more of an appeal among Blacks and Hispanics relative to Trump.