On November 15, Mark Everson dropped out of the Republican presidential race. See this story. He was IRS Commissioner under President Ronald Reagan, and held other high-level jobs in the federal government. But the Republican Party never accepted him as a bona fide candidate, even though he did have campaign offices open in Iowa and New Hampshire. He was not included in any polls or any Republican debates. He was not invited into the Florida Republican Party’s fund-raiser, which meant that he couldn’t be on the Florida Republican primary ballot automatically; instead he would have needed a difficult petition, or a filing fee of $25,000.
I withdrew five days ago and you didn’t cover it, and I was polling at 100% on our island!
Were you the pollster?
No…Marianne.
Running mate for Jim Webb?
The new United Coalition can handle unlimited candidates and our thresholds are calibrated up or down to make an equal threshold for every name.
Our International Parliament has elected free 500 seats (and 500 Senators/donors) and so the threshold for being elected to the international team’s free half is 1/501ths (or .2%, 2/10th of 1%).
Check out web page for the all-inclusive United Coalition of sixteen USA Presidential candidates and the two Libertarian candidates for US Senate (California) and the Unity Platform:
http://www.usparliament.org/pdc.php