This week we've been reading about third parties in elections and what do you know there is a third-party candidate in the New Jersey gubernatorial election that's getting blamed for making it a squeaker.
Pollster has race at 40.5/40.1/14.6.
The popularity of the independent candidate seems to be based on the unpopularity of the incumbent Democrat and the Republican challenger. It will be exciting to see how many voters show up at the polls on election day and spurn the major parties.
This is a class blog for the students of POLSCI 421: Party Politics in America at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee.
