What would've been the Reform Party's role nowadays if it didn't splinter?

[defe07]

Let's assume that Reform Party didn't nominate Buchanan in 2000 but more like somebody like John B. Anderson or former Governor of Colorado Lamm. How would they have done in Presidential elections and General elections? Maps and % are welcome.

[perdedor]

I can't imagine it lasting much longer regardless of what had happened in 2000. The party was really just an alter-ego of Perot, and those sorts of things tend to go under very quickly.

[Bacon King]

At best it would just have become on a national scale what the Independence Party is now in Minnesota.

[defe07]

At best it would just have become on a national scale what the Independence Party is now in Minnesota.

So, I assume this means that the Reform Party would be able to have high numbers in elections AND seats in Congress?

[Hash]

At best it would just have become on a national scale what the Independence Party is now in Minnesota.

So, I assume this means that the Reform Party would be able to have high numbers in elections AND seats in Congress?

The IPM doesn't have seats in Congress and got 3% in the 2006 Senate race (though the kook running for them this year will do much better).

[Xandal]

If it were around today I could see it doing very well. There is a strong desire for a populist third party that is neither to far left or right.

[UpcomingYouthvoter]

It would be the biggest third party in history, now the United States had a three party system. If only Buchanan was not real...

[True Federalist (진정한 연방 주의자)]

You'd have to have someone other than Perot found it for it to not splinter.  The 1990s were a time in which a third party could have blossomed. However, Perot was only interested in Perot and Nader was only interested in Nader which is why his association with the Greens hurt the Greens. The time is not propitious for a third party right now.