Summary: With both Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton showing high unfavorable numbers in the latest polls, will that translate into greater interest in a third-party candidate? Ron Rapoport, a professor at William & Mary College and an expert on third parties, offers his analysis.<br> Regardless of whether Clinton makes it to the White House this year, Jay Newton-Small, a correspondent for Time magazine and an author of a new book on the subject — says that women in politics are already showing increasing influence and power, despite numbers in Congress that hardly reflect their population.<br> And Ben Barnes, a former lieutenant governor of Texas, shares his memories about Lloyd Bentsen, the longtime Democratic senator, vice presidential nominee and Clinton Treasury secretary, who died ten years ago this week.<br> <a href="http://www.elle.com/culture/career-politics/a14737/history-of-nytimes-photo-house-of-representatives-1991/">Photo via Paul Hosefros/The New York Times</a><br> Music used in the podcast:<br> <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00JS4UUAO/ref=dm_ws_sp_ps_dp">Tortuga by DoubleV & Formal One</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Duran-Wedding-Album-DURAN/dp/B000002V1D">None of the Above by Duran Duran</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/I-Am-What/dp/B000001RPJ">I Am What I Am by Gloria Gaynor</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Original-Hits-Soundtrack-AMERICAN-GRAFFITI/dp/B001CAPIXQ">The Great Pretender by The Platters</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Buffalo-Springfield-Again/dp/B000002IAM">Expecting to Fly by Buffalo Springfield</a><br> <a href="http://media.blubrry.com/politicaljunkie/content.blubrry.com/politicaljunkie/Podcast_FINAL_5-25-16_mixdown.mp3"></a><a href="http://krpoliticaljunkie.com/subscribe/"></a><br> <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license"></a><br> This work is licensed under a <a href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/" rel="license">Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License</a><br>
