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Over the last several months of public opinion polls, the American people have made it clear how little enthusiasm they have for a Joe Biden-Donald Trump rematch. So one would assume thatwho could defeat the two probable party nominees shouldn’t be that difficult. One would be wrong.
For over a decade, No Labels has been attracting deep-pocketed supporters who have sought a counterweight to the growing polarization in American politics and using those funds to promote cooperative legislative efforts across party lines in Congress. Now they’re looking to enter the presidential fray and have begun efforts to field a fusion ticket with a Republican and Democratic candidate running together.
These types of populist movements have been around for almost as long as the two parties themselves. They have never elected a president, nor come particularly close, as Ross Perot’s 19 percent of the popular vote in 1992 and George Wallace’s 45 electoral votes in 1968 represent their high-water mark in the primary era. Go back further, and Strom Thurmond’s Dixiecrats in 1948 and Teddy Roosevelt’s Bull Moose Party in 1912 had somewhat greater impact on the eventual outcome.
But the even greater obstacle for those would-be disruptors is a basic misunderstanding of why a voter would choose to leave the two major parties in the first place. There is a common misperception that independent voters are ideologically moderate, who find the Democratic Party to be unacceptably liberal and Republicans to veer too far rightward. But there is extensive research that shows that most independents are ideologically indistinguishable from traditional partisans.
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