It would be great to see a third party candidate grab a few EVs. Anything to start a momentum to break up the duopoly.
Not really.
The problem with third parties is that the people who vote for them and run on them tend to be goofs.
Let's review our most successful "Third Party" Candidates.
2000 - Pat Buchanan- Nazi and Ralph Nader - Hippy Nut
1992 & 1996- Ross Perot - Crazy person who thought the government was out to get him.
1980- John Anderson- Lost as a Republican, took his ball and went home.
1968- George Wallace- Racist
1948 - Strom Thurmond - Racist and Henry Wallace- Communist
seeing a pattern here? The kind of people who can't find a home in one of the two major parties aren't the kind of people you'd ever want running things, anyway. Usually, they are people who are rejected by their own parties for being so far outside the mainstream.
Now Gary Johnson will probably do well enough to qualify for Matching Funds, which I think is hilarious. The guy who runs on "all gummit bad" platform will be taking a government handout that the major parties don't use anymore because they limit the real parties from running effective campaigns