If you are going to make a movie about the life of Queen Elizabeth I, who else could you get to play the role of the Tudor Queen but Cate Blanchett? No one else could do it, of course. Not after her Oscar winning performance as the Queen in Elizabeth.....

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For both 1912 and 1968, you can make a good argument that they tilted the election against the party the candidate was most closely allied with (e.g. Teddy and the republicans, Wallace and the democrats).

It is much more likely that a party will change in perspective (where have all the democratic hawks gone) rather than a third party to replace them. But a third party can certainly tip an election, usually away rather than to (i.e. it takes votes, but rarely would it push people to support one of the two dominant parties).

So based on all that, I would like to see Unity 08 run a Gore/Sharpton ticket. Where do I sign up for the virtual convention.

there simply isn’t much of a market for a mishmash party

You mean like the Republicans and Democrats, both of which are weak programmatic &#147catch-all” parties? How ideologically coherent our present parties look depends a lot on the scale at which you're looking at them. From the rarified, 40,000 feet of national politics, maybe there's some argument to be made. From the level of the local nitty-gritty, not so much. Democrats in Chicago (for example) aren't in lock-step with those in New York.