http://www.rasmussenreports.com/pub...three_way_race_romney_44_obama_39_ron_paul_13 Most of the article is behind a paywall, but the headline is pretty self-explanatory: Three-Way Race: Romney 44%, Obama 39%, Ron Paul 13% This would be... interesting to say the least.
Oh, and there are lots of "third-party" candidates. Unfortunate that the corporate media doesn't cover them, effectively narrowing the field to two.
Well talk about 3rd party candidates who are actually in it: What about Gary Johnson, poll came out what 2 months ago he was at 7-9%, http://www.examiner.com/article/gary-johnson-polling-9-nationally-inching-further-toward-obama in his home state of New Mexico (where he was Governor) he's polling in the 20s http://newmexico.watchdog.org/10740...ng-for-president-on-libertarian-party-ticket/ (ya I know it's a few months old) and last weekend Gary Johnson won the Libertarian nomination, with former California Superior Court Judge James Gray won the VP nomination.
The author of that article appears to be under the impression that "polling at X percent" means "has an X percent chance of being elected."
I'm not even thinking about his chances of being elected. I'm thinking about his chance to majorly put a mindfuck on the two parties. To me, in order to do that he has to get a higher percentage than Perot got at a minimum. Roughly speaking - 20, million votes or 20% - preferably the latter ((20 million votes wouldn't be 19-20% anymore) Reaching and surpassing that in a significant way would be success. Anything else is gravy. the first challenge, however, is to get the poling to 15% in order to get into the debates.
