I think fully, that an independent candidate can't win in this country. The Constitution is structured for basically a two-party government, a two-party race.
Democracy is nothing but the Tyranny of Majorities, the most abominable tyranny of all, for it is not based on the authority of a religion, not upon the nobility of a race, not on the merits of talents and of riches. It merely rests upon numbers and hides behind the name of the people.