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Article: A third-party president? Forget it
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- September 5, 1995
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There is a way to make sense of all the speculation about a
third-party presidential campaign in 1996: Ignore it.
Among political junkies, the third-party buzz has become rife. It
was stoked by the convention of Ross Perot supporters in Dallas last
month. It was further stoked by New Jersey Sen. Bill Bradley's
retirement announcement and his talk of running for president as an
independent. Then came a new Times Mirror survey indicating that 26
percent of the public would support an independent presidential
candidacy.
Meanwhile, former Connecticut Gov. Lowell Weicker has been
promoting himself as potential non-Republican, non-Democratic
presidential material. Jesse Jackson vowed last week ...