Post columnist Matt Miller has joined Tom Friedman and others in calling for a third-party, or independent, candidate for president, a radical centrist to take over American politics, shake it by the lapels and blow up the political order and its awful two-party system. Their model is Americans Elect , an impressive organization created by policy and business entrepreneur Peter Ackerman that is using the Web to gain millions of adherents for an Internet convention to nominate a third presidential candidate; the group is moving rapidly to get on state ballots for 2012. Read full article > >

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The pitfalls of a third-party candidacy