Study guide to why third parties lose in American elections: Perot in 1992 against Theodore Roosevelt in 1912, how winner-take-all and one-winner districts work and where they come from, Duverger's law as a tendency and not a rule, the spoiler question, ballot access and the debate rules, whether changing the rules would help, and what third parties have actually won. Every claim is tagged Settled, Disputed or Popular myth with a source line.
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