See this four-minute televised conversation between Fox Business Network host Neil Cavuto and former U.S. Senator Joseph Lieberman, on whether an independent or new party candidate could win the presidency in 2016. Lieberman raises the possibility that even if such a candidate would not win, he or she would influence public policy.
Was H. Ross Perot not winning until he “withdrew”? Same applies today. You have to be in with the good ol boys to get elected.