Are Voters Pining For A Third-Party Candidate? It's Complicated.

A small but significant minority of voters would be interested in a more ideologically pure alternative to the two likely presidential nominees, a new HuffPost/YouGov poll finds. But that doesn't necessarily mean they'd actually vote for one.

Ten percent of voters say they'd be very likely to vote for a liberal challenger over Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump, with 16 percent saying they'd be fairly or somewhat likely, and 62 percent that they would not be very likely to do so. An equal 10 percent say they'd be very likely to support a conservative alternative to Clinton and Trump, with 57 percent calling themselves unlikely to do so and 21 percent falling somewhere in the middle.

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