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The Dems are a more fractured coalition party than the GOP, so they are always going to be more vulnerable to third-party challengers.
The GOP has figured this out and (smartly) encourages such things (there was a decent amount of GOP money behind Jill Stein, for example).
The Dems need to figure out how to deal with this issue, because it is not going away. Obama was such a unifying candidate that he gave the party a temporary reprieve. But I think that the typical presidential race is going to have a Nader or a Gabbard in it more often than not.
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