If, Lord forbid, the two major U.S. political parties insist on giving us another contest for president between Joe Biden and Donald Trump, the feasibility of a successful independent/third-party candidacy is better than most pundits think.

This column isn’t predicting an independent victor. That outcome is still a long shot. It is, though, less long of a shot than a first glance would indicate.

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