I vote third party for things like delegate, mayor, etc. But otherwise, I have yet to see any third party candidate for major office (governor, for instance) pull together any decent kind of campaign. I'm of the belief that if third parties are really serious about getting into office, they need to start small and work up. Concentrate on getting three or four good candidates together for mayoral/delegate/city manager races or something. Then work on areas like attorney general, lt. governor, maybe senator or something like that. just going right for the whole cake doesn't make sense, and all it ends up doing is grouping potentially viable 3rd party folks in with the space cadets who run for president out of their garage and get covergae on The Daily Show.