No doubt the Green Party, which will be taking part in its prime-time town hall Wednesday night , will be keen to exploit the high negatives of Trump and Clinton to generate support. But more significantly, the Libertarian Party, led by Gary Johnson, is likely to benefit from a shift in support from small government, liberty-loving conservatives as well as conscience-stricken Republican partisans looking for another excuse to break with their party's nominee. Back in 1912, former President Theodore Roosevelt, after having lost the Republican nomination to incumbent President William Taft, ran as the nominee of the Progressive Party. As the University of Virginia's Miller Center notes , Roosevelt's successful campaign "challenged the conservative wing of the Republican Party and left it discredited." Sadly for the Libertarian Party -- and the Green Party, too -- the results are more likely to look like business as usual.

Source: CNN August 17, 2016 20:48 UTC