<div><p>I’m just a guy with a camera and an editing machine that set out to look into politics in the 2016 election for a project: Third Candidates.</p></div>
While Donald Trump stunned the world by defeating Hillary Clinton, a small percentage of political outsiders watched the results to see if they could capitalize on an election season that left few feeling good about the state of politics in the United States. Even a small percentage of the popular
In our fourth episode of Third Candidates, we follow Gary Johnson and Jill Stein from June to September at various 2016 campaign stops as they try to capitalize on their unique opportunities in a highly unusual election season. Interviews with Gary Johnson, Jill Stein, their supporters, political leaders, and other
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtSH7n9NZFw Maine’s “Question 5” is a citizen initiative that, if passed on November 8, would implement Ranked Choice Voting, for all statewide elections. Our current voting method, First Past the Post (aka Plurality), is one of the simplest methods of conducting democratic elections.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65AZr335FWc We over at Third Candidates took time this summer and fall to learn more about the process independent and third party candidates go through in order to be granted ballot access. Like a lot of things in our system, ballot access is badly
Presidential Debates
We over at Third Candidates took a look at the controversial debate access criteria that has been criticized for keeping third party and independent candidates out the important presidential debates. We spoke with political experts, the authors of this criteria - the Commission on Presidential Debates, and critics who claim
We all know by now the 2016 election has been historic for many reasons. Revolutions called for, walls promised, and glass ceilings shattered. Now we are eyeing a possibility that third parties get 10% or beyond of the popular vote (most experts will take the under, I’ll be saucy