After the NCNC rejected her bid for a second candidacy for the assembly in 1959, she ran as an independent, which split the NCNC vote and ensured the opposing party's victory.
In building his third candidacy for the presidency, he cobbled together an odd group of allies, some with contradictory visions.
On 12 April, Hillary Rodham Clinton declared her second candidacy for president, this time as the Democratic Party favorite, supported by a large majority of Democratic-leaning voters.
John McCain, the United States Senator from Arizona, launched his first candidacy for the presidency of the United States in the 2000 presidential election.
In 1968, running a third-party candidacy for the presidency, the former Democratic governor of Alabama, George Wallace, campaigned with the veneer of race and violence ever present.
Before the accusations, Mr. Powell had been raising money for a possible second candidacy against Representative Charles B. Rangel, the dean of the New York delegation in Congress.
Former Louisiana Gov. Charles "Buddy Roemerr formally announced his third party candidacy for president today from the headquarters of Yowie, a video chat service.
Others also seemed primed for a third-party candidacy.
In the last election, Mr. Bloomberg, the nation's most prominent and wealthiest independent elected official, explored the possibility of a presidential run but concluded that the moment was not right for a third-party candidacy.
But given the major differences between the prospective Democratic and Republican nominees, there is no driving logic for a third-party candidacy this year, and the public deserves to see the major-party candidates compete on an uncluttered playing field.
