Re: a rose is a rose is a rose (this is NOT a pipe)
JP May (jpm@TWEB.COM)
Sun, 17 Dec 1995 17:02:42 -0600
>Actually I saw a segment on...I think it was this morning's Today
>show (or maybe it was yesterday's) on NBC. Apparently, it's
>something ridiculously cheap and easy to register for the NH
>primary (like $1000 bucks and a few hundred signatures) which
>brings out all sorts of "independent" candidates. On this segment
>they profiled the mayor of some medium-sized midwest city that
>I've never heard of and a woman who "communicates with dead
>people who still wish to serve their country" and a
>fundamentalist evangelical preacher who was told to run by God
>(and who is _not_ Pat Roberston :)--all of whom are running for
>president in the NH primary.
>
>True, there are no *viable* independent candidates (of course,
>you could say the same about the LP), but apparently there are
>plenty of non-affiliated candidates participating in the primary.
>
>If I'd been paying better attention to the TV this morning, I
>could give you more specific info...as is, it's more of a vague
>memory, sorta like the raisin bran I was eating.
>>
That was the point, Greg .. apparently in the NH primary (specifically the
NH one, not primaries generally), this year there are only two people
registered who are not everyday Dems or Repubs, and they are indeed LP, ie
not the usual collection of whackos, only two LP whackos. (Browne and, um,
Schiff I think)
I might be misinformed, or, maybe on GMA they were talking about other primaries
Not that it matters.
jp
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