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It should be noted that it was Roosevelt's Party, not LaFollete's. LaFollete's Progressives did not support Roosevelt, and ran their own presidential candidacy in 1924.

If you look at the main reasons for most of those bids, they were more personality conflicts than anything. Roosevelt and Henry Wallace are good examples.

And, too, I said "third-party" - not independent. Different animals.

For all purposes Perot was an independent, as an fyi.

Really, the only third-party bids that weren't single-issue were LaFollete in 1924 - his Progressives were a long-standing political part in their own right - and to some degree Perot. Anderson would qualify had he had a party behind him, better than either of those cases.

The ND Coalition stayed mostly intact until 1972 - most of them supported Kennedy over Nixon, after having voted for Ike.

Prior to that, you can see the same general features in power from McKinley's election into the 1930s.

After 1972, you really had similar concepts in power. 2008 is currently considered to be another such of these elections. Probably accurate, given demographics and the Tea Party nuts. I expect a third-party bid next either in 2016 or 2020, actually, by them. Depends if they get the 2016 nomination or not.