WINTER PARK — John Mica, in his 24 years as a Republican member of Congress from Central Florida, worked alongside presidents, helped build roads, bridges and airports, and developed close relationships across the aisle. Along the way, he collected more groundbreaking shovels than he knew what to do with. “I’ve had probably 50 or 60 of them,” Mica said, holding a particularly shiny shovel on .
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Third parties are just not a thing in American presidential politics. The first-past-the-post nature of our system means that without supplanting one of the major parties, the best-case scenario for any third-party candidate is to play the spoiler.So why engage in such a futile endeavor? One obvious.