QUESTIONS:
1. Since the present two-party system came into being in 1856, what third-party candidate for President has received the highest percentage of popular votes?
2. What third-party candidate for President drew the most electoral votes?
3. Who was the last third-party candidate for President to draw a percentage of the popular votes in double digits?
4. Most third-party candidates fade after one election. Who was the last third-party candidate to run for President in two elections in a row?
5. Who were the last two third-party candidates for President to have retired military officers as their vice presidential running mates?
ANSWERS:
1. Theodore Roosevelt, who drew 27.5% of the vote as the Progressive Party candidate for President in 1912.
2. Roosevelt, who drew 88 electoral votes in 1912.
3. H. Ross Perot, who ran as an independent candidate for President in 1992 and drew 18.9% of the vote.
4. Perot, an independent candidate in ’92 and Reform Party candidate in ’96.
5. George C. Wallace, whose running mate on the American Independent Party ticket in 1968 was retired U.S. Air Force Gen. Curtis LeMay, and Perot, whose running mate in 1992 was retired U.S. Navy Adm. James Stockdale.
