“A third-party candidate is never treated equally. They look at you as a novelty, as cannon fodder. "This is entertaining," they think, "but we'll go back to the Democrats and Republicans, because only they can run our government."”

—  Jesse Ventura

Which is baloney.
Harvard interview (February 2004)

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