The Daily Free Press, an independent student newspaper at Boston University, has this article about Economics Professor Laurence Kotlikoff’s campaign for the Americans Elect presidential nomination. As the story says, because he has never held important elected office, he needs 50,000 clicks, not 10,000 clicks, to be nominated. “Click” means a vote in the Americans Elect on-line nomination process. The deadline for showing this support is April 30.
Professor Kotlikoff believes he is the first Economics Professor to ever run for President. He is a registered independent, although he served as an economics advisor under President Ronald Reagan.
The article is inaccurate, though, in saying that Kotlikoff is in 3rd place. He’s in 3rd place only among declared candidates for the AE nomination. He’s in 9th place overall when you take into account the draft candidates.
In fairness, that’s still pretty good by AE standards, considering that the draft candidates ahead of him are all much more famous people. Kotlikoff has almost half as many clicks as President Obama does.
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