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Brian Klaas and Stacy Hilliard join Newsweek to explore what happens when voters are fed up of traditional parties and candidates. Ilya Shapiro, a senior fellow in constitutional studies at the Cato Institute, has calculated that if an independent candidate wants to run for U.S. President he or she has until next week, August 2, to register, to be able to win an Electoral College majority. It got us thinking: given neither Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump is particularly beloved among voters, why has no strong third candidate emerged? And is it time that American politics was changed, to open up the system, make it easier to run, and offer voters more choice? We also look at Spain, which offers a cautionary tale: there, two new parties, the centrist Ciudadanos and leftist Podemos, burst onto the national scene in the past three years. Each sought to provide an alternative to the two tired traditional parties of power: the center-right People's Party and center-left socialists. But in the event, they...