[thechat] commies.. was: parties (or: US Elections)

[Luther, Ron]

Oh Wow,

Somebody else remembers Gus Hall?

He's got to have the world record for most failed Presidential bids.

Gus died 2 years ago - he was 90.

RonL.
(I believe the infamous Angela Davis was his running mate as VP?)


-----Original Message-----
From: aardvark [mailto:roselli at earthlink.net]

yep, there's still a communist party... it's dropped off in
membership since the fall of the soviet union, but it still exists...

gus hall (if i remember his name correctly) ran as the presidential
candidate on that ticket forever (i think he's dead now)...

there are a *lot* of parties, but they don't show up on the ballots
unless they have a certain number of signatures/supporters...