Jesse Ventura

Aaron Mason

PLS 105 - Prof. Coyle

March 29, 2010

The Uncertainty of a Third Party Candidate

(Assignment #3)

“If you’re up against a third party candidate with name recognition and media skills, you’d better take them seriously, even if they’re short of money” given from David Beiler but said from State Democratic Executive Director Kathy Czar. A quote made to show that a man with a background such as Jesse Ventura’s can make a miracle happen even in if the minds of those in the political world don’t see him fit; however, it was the votes of the people of Gopher state Minnesota that thought the WWF star was a true choice to make him the new governor. There are reasons why Ventura became a candidate, and it is because of his stature and specific situations that went on creating this miracle that at first became a simple chuckle rather than pure reality.

Specific situations helped Ventura have more of edge such as the debates going on between Humphrey and Coleman. First of all Humphrey gambled that if he brought Ventura into the debates than Coleman would have some points taken off for his electoral account. Than all of the sudden Coleman and Humphrey are constantly going back at each other with slogans such as “Norm Coleman: The Only One”, and giving off practiced answers when here is Ventura purely being himself, answering straight out without hesitations but also came off not to always be the brute that he showed when he was a wrestler or the Mayor. If the Major parties for the Democrats and Republicans had been stronger, Ventura’s credibility would not have been noticed much, but even if the major parties were smarter than these two were, Ventura would have probably not have made the debates which would have made his campaign very unlikely to be successful.

Another situation that made Ventura’s campaign to ever be a success was of Minnesota’s peculiar electoral system. One of Minnesota’s election laws gives voters of the state to a chance register on...