spoiler effect 2000 ends up being the perfect example. ralph nader got 93,000 votes in florida. al gore only lost florida by 537 votes. also, by the way, pat buchanan. there was the whole issue with the butterfly ballot, folks who seem to in confusion have voted for him. in that very narrow circumstance, you can clearly see where third party had the effect. but when it comes to the question here of schultz and what effect he would have, you heard it there. the democrats, they say he splits the anti-trump vote. trump has a majority disapproval rating right now. the democrats saying those folks will be content to vote against trump, don t give them more than one option. give the folks one option, they ll all vote against trump and trump will be out of office. it s a theory that schultz would complicate that. put that anywhery out there. these things don t always the history of these third-party candidacies is they don t always land the way conventional wisdom says they will. here s the