mind that much. i don t see it happening. ron? i agree. why could it never work? it cannot work because of the electoral college. even if you can draw an audience like ross per row did, he did not win a single state. 40 states have voted the same way in the past four presidential elections. that is a higher percentage of the states that even in the four elections that franklin roosevelt won consecutively. there are is no page for 260 electoral votes. and they can tip it one side or the other. and since that donald trump never got 47% of the vote, the odds are very high and he s a republican nominee, he will be the most at advantage. but people are tempted by it. voters are fickle. and they often say, if only there was another way, a third
w. bush. pete: yeah, it s certifiable when you look at people, he was a populist, a billionaire, a blunt talker. i mean, bill clinton won with 43 % of the vote. under water on that victory. 19% changes the entire campaign. you talk to people inside the h. w. bush camp to this day or even clinton folks acknowledge clinton is not in the white house without ross per ot. will: they believe that to be the case and there are others again back to political polling that suggests if you just polled them one-to-one, h. b. bush against bill clinton it would have turned out the same way. it s always hard to know exactly the effect of a third party candidate but i think it is fair to say in this case we re talking about in a primary, not a next general election and therefore, it s fair to say robert f. kennedy could cause at a minimum embarrassment for joe biden. pete: it s also worth noting that democrats are most concerned about a third party candidate. just generally speaking when you look at th