Americans Elect Could Become a Viable Political Party
4-9-12
J. David Gillespie teaches political science at the College of Charleston and The Citadel. Gillespie was a member of the Presbyterian College faculty in political science from 1979 to 2006 and that institution’s vice-president for academic affairs from 1997 to 2005. He has written extensively on third parties and has provided testimony in federal and state ballot access cases. His two books on the topic, both published by the University of South Carolina Press, are "Challengers to Duopoly: Why Third Parties Matter in American Two-Party Politics" (2012) and "Politics at the Periphery: Third Parties in Two-Party America" (1993).
These, not any hunch about election spoiling this November, are what already have set AE’s significant place among third parties that have really mattered.