Buddy Roemer is a former Governor of Louisiana and a Republican who is seeking the nomination of the Americans Elect party. The Atlantic, a well known publication with a wide reach, has published this in-depth profile of Buddy Roemer and his nascent campaign.
Roemer knows, so he has announced that he will likely compete for the nomination of Americans Elect, a web group that will choose a candidate through an online vote in June and promises to put that candidate on the ballot in all 50 states.
Mark McKinnon was Roemer’s press secretary in the 1987 race and went on to serve as President Bush’s media adviser in 2000 and 2004. Now on the advisory board of Americans Elect and deeply dismayed with Washington, McKinnon said he thinks that Americans will listen to a third-party message. “All kinds of indicators of faith in parties and institutions are at an all-time low,” he said.
McKinnon believes that Roemer can appeal to the right with his anti-spending message and to the left with his attacks on big banks and money in politics.
“Roemer ties together a left-right coalition,” McKinnon said. “I think that the Republican Party will regret not embracing him because he’ll have an impact as a third party candidate.”
The entire profile is well worth reading and provides some insight into how third party campaigns, even those with big names attached to them, often labor in obscurity.
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Is there an echo in here?
Roemer was governor of my state, Louisiana, not Mississippi.
Buddy Roemer sounded like a candidate for the Green Party nomination on Current TV’s Young Turks.
In a word, no.
BTW Roemer was Governor of Louisiana, not Mississippi. He’s interested in the Republican and Americans Elect nomination, not the Greens. And the Greens would not nominate him if he did want their nomination.
Anybody else think the two organizations will enjoy similar levels of success (none)?
No one that’s paying attention. The Supreme Court has since allowed them to raise money in the way they want, which was their problem last time.
Buddy Roemer sounded like a candidate for the Green Party nomination on Current TV’s Young Turks.
Buddy Roemer running as a Green Party candidate could build a very strong state Green Party in Mississippi where he was Governor.
I see”Americans Elect” is run by the same people as “Unity08”.
Anybody else think the two organizations will enjoy similar levels of success (none)?