Based on the last few posts, I'm gonna say it again: If everyone who hates both current candidates votes third party, Gary Johnson will win by a landslide.
I encourage you to watch the Libertarian Town Hall tonight on CNN.
This. In a normal year I'd be against a third party because puppy-crusher (in a three way race the small breed party and the large breed party split the dog loving vote 33%-33%, allowing the puppycrusher party to win with 34%).
But this is not a normal year.
What you have is two candidates who are not merely unpalatable, but detestable, authoritarian and corrupt to the core, and they are being forced upon us by the establishment of both parties. The DNC was in the tank for Hillary from day one and actively worked to quash opposition and anything approaching a real Democratic process. Trump was definitely not the establishment pick to start, but once it became clear that they had to choose between Trump and Cruz, they chose Trump because they knew he would play ball and let them keep their power. This was demonstrated this week when States like Utah, where Trump lost in landslides and didn't earn a single delegate, had their entire delegations recorded as Trump votes. So much for the "will of the people".
A recent poll showed Clinton and Trump in a dead heat, with half of Clinton voters stating they were only voting for Hillary to stop Trump, and half of Trump voters saying they were only voting Trump to stop Clinton. If you do the math, that means 25% are actually pro Trump/Clinton and 50% are neither. If there ever was a year for the voters to tell the the political establishment to $@#& off, this is it. A third party candidate could win with 50% versus Hillary and Trump each getting 25%.
While I'm generally sympathetic to the libertarian position, I strongly disagree with Johnson on several issues, but a. he's in third place and therefore has the best chance, b. he's not carved from pure evil like 1 and 2, and c. he's the best chance we're likely to have in our lifetimes to turn the table upside down on these *******s who keep giving us terrible, terrible candidates.
So, the op's question basically boils down to choosing between eating a shit sandwich or a shit sandwich with cheese. I'll be choosing the liverwurst sandwich named Gary Johnson. I don't like liverwurst, but it's a lot better than shit, no matter what you put on top.
If enough if us make that choice, there is the real possibility that we won't be eating shit for the next four years.