Jacobs, Lawrence2018-10-082018-10-082004-03-07https://hdl.handle.net/11299/200533The hot topic in handicapping the presidential election is whether the announced independent candidate Ralph Nader will be the spoiler -- again – by winning a small but decisive percentage of the vote in an evenly divided country. Nader enjoys the support of 9 percent of Americans and hurts the presumed Democratic nominee John Kerry, according to the Humphrey Institute Survey based on a national sample of 758 adults conducted by the Center for Survey Research and Analysis at the University of Connecticut from February 18-29. But Nader is not the only third party candidate. Sixteen percent of Americans are willing to vote for Republican Senator John McCain if he ran as an independent.enthird partyReport