Editing Swing vote (section)

==Impact==
Swing voters occasionally play a huge part in elections. First-time voters and swing voters are usually credited for helping [[Jesse Ventura]] win the [[Minnesota]] gubernatorial election in 1998. Swing voters who support [[Third party (politics)|third-party]] candidates take potential votes away from the major candidates. Ventura was a third-party candidate; his opponents were seen as two weak major-party candidates, and this situation created many more swing voters than usual. This resulted in Jesse Ventura, the third-party candidate, winning the election.

In the Supreme Court of the [[United States]] the swing justice, if one exists, essentially decides the overall outcome of the ruling during a split, which can mean highly impacting [[landmark decision]]s. For example, the effective decision of the [[President of the United States]] in the [[2000 United States presidential election|2000 election]] was ultimately made by Justice [[Anthony Kennedy]] in the ''[[Bush v. Gore]]'' case.