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If you run a third party that is appealing enough, you can certainly have a go at it. I just have literally never seen, I don't know, the Green Party put up a candidate for local city elections.

It's not like party establishments haven't had candidates lose despite all odds. And Independents have had good streaks at lower offices (e.g. Bernie Sanders, Michael Bloomberg)

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Depends where you are: In the recent California governor recall, there were two Green Party candidates and one Libertarian.

Governor is already a bit high-level to really have a chance at breaking through, isn't it? Or am I misunderstanding what you mean?

Was responding to the idea that the Green party doesn't put up candidates for local elections... I think I've seen them on smaller races than Governor as well, but this was a recent example that came to mind easily.

Just curious, but how strong are those campaigns actually? Do they do the door-knocking, the ads, and the voter registration?

Not in my experience.

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