Are half of all Americans really considering a third-party vote in 2024?
Ed Morrissey 12:01 PM on July 21, 2023
To paraphrase an old saying, there are polls, damned polls, and hypothetical click-bait. To which category should we assign a Quinnipiac poll that reports 47% of American voters willing to consider a third-party presidential candidate in 2024? Especially when nearly as many voters of a specific party affiliation indicate openness to the idea?
Door Number 3, perhaps, but even so, this can’t help but make Joe Manchin feel tingly all over (via PJ Media):
With the 2024 presidential race potentially pitting a current and former president against each other and more than a dozen other candidates officially seeking their party’s presidential nomination, voters are evenly split about voting for a third-party candidate, with 47 percent saying they would consider voting for a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election and 47 percent say they would not consider it, according to a Quinnipiac (KWIN-uh-pe-ack) University national poll released today.
Independents say more than 2 to 1 (64 – 30 percent) that they would consider voting for a third-party candidate in the 2024 presidential election while Democrats (61 – 35 percent) and Republicans (57 – 38 percent) say they would not consider it.
Gee, I wonder why this idea might get this much interest from voters? Perhaps it has something to do with the fact that voters already had to choose between the two likely nominees before and aren’t fans of re-runs. Or it could be that one of the options is currently racking up criminal indictments and the other looks like he needs a minder and translator every time he’s out in public. It might just be frustration over the idea that the two major political parties couldn’t do better than these choices in 2020 and still can’t do better in 2024.
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