August 6, 2011, Greencastle, Ind. — A McClatchy Newspapers article which takes a crystal ball look ahead to the 2012 presidential election, notes, "Pollster Scott Rasmussen, the founder and president of Rasmussen
Reports, said that if the general election appeared to be close, he
doubted that a strong third-party candidate would emerge." Adam Sege writes, "Rasmussen added, however, that voters are 'discouraged and angry' with
both major political parties. The last three elections largely rejected
the party in power, he noted, as Democrats won back both houses of
Congress in 2006 and the presidency in 2008, and Republicans won back
the House and gained ground in the Senate last year. Rasmussen said he could easily imagine a strong
third-party alternative emerging by the 2016 election."
A 1986 graduate of DePauw, Rasmussen says, "The gap between the American people and their leaders is bigger than the gap between the Republicans and Democrats."
Access the full text at the website of the Kansas City Star.
Scott Rasmussen is author of Mad as Hell: How the Tea Party Movement is Fundamentally Remaking Our Two-Party System and In Search of Self-Governance. He co-founded ESPN with his father, Bill Rasmussen '54.
Learn more him in this recent story.