Time Capsule: American Party Nominee Tom Anderson Calls Jimmy Carter ‘A Wild Man’
The American Party’s Thomas J. Anderson called Democratic presidential nominee Jimmy Carter “a wild man and phony” on October 1, 1976.
Speaking at a news conference... Read more.
Time Capsule: Prohibition Party’s 1948 Candidate for President Barred From Voting for Himself
Claude A. Watson, the Prohibition Party’s candidate for president, was unable to vote for himself in 1948.
Watson and his wife had requested that absentee ballots... Read more.
Time Capsule: Conservatives Reject Chuck Percy, Back Libertarian in ’84 Illinois Senate Race
Rejecting Republican Sen. Charles H. Percy of Illinois as a “partisan Democrat in Republican’s clothing,’“ a group of nationally-recognized conservative... Read more.
Time Capsule: ‘Pitchfork Pat’ Buchanan Bolts GOP, Declares Reform Party Candidacy
Patrick J. Buchanan, the pugnacious conservative commentator whose insurgent candidacies briefly threatened the GOP’s frontrunners in 1992 and 1996, dropped out... Read more.
Time Capsule: Wisconsin’s Progressive Party Cheated by the Grim Reaper
Just 36 days after winning the governorship, this week in 1942 death cruelly intervened and denied the Wisconsin Progressive Party one of its greatest electoral... Read more.
Time Capsule: William Allen White Waged War on the Klan in 1924 Gubernatorial Campaign
Legendary newspaper editor William Allen White, a man who advised Presidents and rubbed shoulders with some of the world’s greatest statesmen in a career that... Read more.
Time Capsule: Facing Only Minor-Party Opposition, Mayor Ed Koch Waged Vigorous Re-Election Bid
Despite winning both major party nominations in 1981 — the first New York City mayor to do so — Mayor Ed Koch announced that he would wage a full-scale campaign... Read more.
Time Capsule: Aging Norman Thomas Placed a Socialist on New York City’s Ballot
The following is excerpted from Darcy G. Richardson’s new “The Lowest Ebb: Norman Thomas and America’s Minor Parties in 1944,” available at Amazon and other... Read more.
Time Capsule: Protest Votes Loomed Large in 1992’s Ohio Senate Slugfest
As Americans head to the polls later today, it’ll be interesting to see if a genuine dark-horse candidate — somebody running outside the duopoly, someone nobody... Read more.
Denying Clinton & Trump 270: Roque De La Fuente’s Rocky Mountain Strategy
By Darcy G. Richardson
However improbable, there might yet be a way to prevent Hillary Clinton or Donald Trump from obtaining the necessary 270 electoral votes to... Read more.