Of course a popular third party candidate takes votes away from the major candidates. Of course!
But maybe... maybe the third party candidate wouldn't be as popular if the major candidates weren't completely atrocious. Maybe...
A vote for Johnson is helping to further the Independent agenda to break the two party system which will eventually happen. Some people get it, others just follow the sheep parades.
My comment on Johnson was parody. Oddly enough I'm probably closer in belief to Johnson than Clinton. But Trump is a far greater 'evil' than the Hillster so I have to place my one tiny vote in the place best suited to defeat him. If that makes me a sheep then so be it.