RFK pick gives him a shot in the arm.

It's no longer Barbie and Kim in New Jersey.

And we remember a groundbreaking running mate on the political junkie.

You like Ike.

I like like, I everybody likes I for president.

Add light to you and lead to me.

I don't care how you quoted.

Come on and vote for Kennedy. Vote for Kennedy, and we'll come on top.

Vote for Richard Nixon and Henry Cabot Lodge, because they're the ones to lead the USA.

Thanks for joining us, and welcome to episode 412 of the political junkie. I'm Ken Ruden.

For the longest time, discussion about third-party presidential candidates centered more on which

major party candidate they would take votes from. They never seem like there's a shot of them winning,

just who gets hurt and who gets helped. Ralph Nader got just 1.6% of the vote in Florida in 2000,

but it was enough, some will argue, to cost Al Gore the election. Jill Stein picked up

enough votes in Michigan, Wisconsin, and Pennsylvania in 2016 to theoretically deny Hillary Clinton the win, though many will argue Clinton could have done a better job on her own candidacy.

Note, by the way, that both Gore and Clinton won the popular vote.

And to this day, people are still debating who was

hurt more, George Bush or Bill Clinton, by the 19 million votes Ross Perrault received in 1992.

The independent candidate people are focusing on this year is Robert Kennedy Jr., son of the late

senator.

He is a noted environmentalist, with admirers on the left, but also a fierce critic of vaccines and follower of bizarre conspiracy theories, which helps him attract support from

Trumpers and Fox News.

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