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Originally Posted by Tom Joad
Didn't think of that one.
That could throw some shit in the game.
The last time a third party won any electoral votes that I know of was George Wallace in 1968 when he carried several of the state of the Olde Confederacy.
Nixon still managed to pull it out, but I hear that he was apoplectic about it because at that time the Democrats controlled the house.
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A c&p from wiki on Ross Perot. He didn't win any electoral votes, but some other guy won one in 1972
In the 1992 election, he received 18.9% of the popular vote, approximately 19,741,065 votes (but no electoral college votes), making him the most successful third-party presidential candidate in terms of the popular vote since Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 election.[40] Unlike Perot, however, some other third party candidates since Roosevelt have won electoral college votes. (Robert La Follette had 13 in 1924, Strom Thurmond had 39 in 1948, George Wallace had 46 in 1968 and John Hospers won one in 1972, albeit from a faithless elector). Compared with Thurmond and Wallace, who polled very strongly in a small number of states, Perot's vote was more evenly spread across the country. Perot managed to finish second in two states: In Maine, Perot received 30.44% of the vote to Bush's 30.39% (Clinton won Maine with 38.77%); in Utah, Perot received 27.34% of the vote to Clinton's 24.65% (Bush won Utah with 43.36%). Although Perot won no state, he received the most votes in some counties, including Trinity County, California.