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Arnold Schwarzenegger and Jesse Ventura were two actors-turned Governors around the same time. Ventura from 1999-2005 and Schwarzenegger from 2003-2009. They had also both been in the films Predator and The Running Man.
At a Minnesota campaign event, Schwarzenegger joked that if they'd formed a ticket they'd be the Running Men. A journalist proceeded to report that Arnold was pushing for a "Unity Ticket" with the third-party governor, and eventually a poll showed that a Predator Ticket would handily win an election that the GOP was otherwise expecting to lose. Ventura, opposing the two parties, was resistant, but a deal was struck in which he'd run with Arnold in exchange for the GOP supporting a slate of Independence Party candidates for House and Senate in Minnesota. When November came, the Predators didn't quite landslide but it was a good-sized win.
So let's say the constitution hadn't been amended to allow Arnold to run and somebody else (McCain?) had been nominee. Might we have seen a McCain-Lieberman unity ticket?