What percentage of the vote will Johnson and Stein get?

[Garrett78]

"3rd" party candidates almost always do considerably worse than pre-election polls suggest they will. On the other hand, we don't usually have 2 major party candidates with such high unfavorables (in an anti-establishment climate). It seems Johnson and Stein have already lost quite a few percentage points since polling began months ago. Will they lose more? If so, who ultimately benefits? If Trump's ceiling is low 40s, then you'd think Clinton would benefit (making a double digit victory a possibility).

What say ye?

[MANative]

3. C - 49, T - 45, J - 4, S - 2

[MyNameIsKhan]

4. 52-46-5-1

[underpants]

7. 2012 Johnson got 1.2 million votes or .99% - Stein .36%

[Garrett78]

9. Yep. I could see them doubling those numbers this year.

Maybe. And that means either Clinton or Trump is likely to benefit.

[madinmaryland]

10. I can't see the total of all 3rd party candidates combined being more than 1-1.5% of the total vote.

[stopbush]

11. No matter how low their support, you can be sure that they will spend the next

3.5 years blissfully uninvolved with politics, uninterested in running for any local or state office, after which they will leech onto the system once again with the preposterous idea that their nothing burger asses are somehow worthy of consideration for the office of POTUS.

I have more respect for those R wannabes who run for office than I do for losers like Stein and Johnson.