If you've got $5,000 in the bank and a determination to crush the two-party system that has dominated the White House for most of the past 220 years, you too could become president.
Never mind that a third-party candidate has not only never won the modern presidency, but, with the exception of Texas billionaire Ross Perot's renegade 1992 run that racked up nearly 19 percent of the vote, no independent candidate in the past 40 years has put up even a fraction of that in an election.
Enter Kanye West. The rapper is reportedly running for president under the third-party Birthday Party banner as part of a campaign that has so far reportedly landed him on the ballot in one state, Oklahoma.
Read more on billboard.com