Reply #38: Usually, people who claim they will have a "critical mass" have some sort of mass in the first place

[BzaDem]

As opposed to being at the lowest level in decades.

Don't get me wrong -- there would be no chance of a viable third party in our winner-take-all system even if said party had a non-negligible share of supporters. (See Perot, with his 19% support and 0 electoral votes.) It's just all the more striking that people are making all these claims about "critical mass" when their support is negligible and at the lowest point in decades.