Top 5 Interesting Presidential Election Firsts to Watch For

3. Third Parties Make Waves

Gary Johnson has enjoyed unprecedented success for a Libertarian Party candidate. He will almost certainly earn over 1% of the vote, thus shattering the LP record. However, another third party candidate who has also received attention has been Green Party candidate Jill Stein. If each receives one percent or better, this would be the first time two “third party” candidates have received as large a portion of the vote since 1980, when Independent John B. Anderson and Libertarian Ed Clark received 6.61% and 1.06%, respectively. That election itself marked the first such occurrence since 1948.