Jacobs, Lawrence2018-10-082018-10-082004-04-20https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200532ST. PAUL, MINN. - The hot topic in handicapping the presidential election is whether independent candidate Ralph Nader will be the spoiler - again - by winning a small but decisive percentage of the vote in an evenly divided country. But Mr. Nader is not the only third party candidate who could sway the electorate significantly enough to change history - as he did in 2000 by siphoning off liberal voters from Al Gore and as Ross Perot did in 1992 and 1996 by taking conservative votes from the GOP candidate. A Humphrey Institute Survey found in February that 20 percent of voters are disaffected from the two major parties, and a significant number of them could be tapped by gifted candidates running as independent or Libertarian - if these candidates received the kind of press attention that Nader has attracted.enthreatthird partyReport