It’s been 48 years since a third-party presidential candidate managed to win votes in the electoral college. That was George Wallace’s 1968 presidential campaign, during which the Alabama governor won 13.5 percent of the vote and picked up 46 electoral votes in the South. Ross Perot may have won 19 percent of the vote in 1992, but his supporters were spread out, and he never won a state. The Libertarian Party has been around since 1971, and it’s usually an afterthought in American politics. Its candidates have been little known, save a few flickers of mini celebrity (Ron Paul was the party’s presidential nominee in 1988, and David Koch was the vice presidential nominee in 1980). This year, it’s
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