The Socialist Workers Party candidate for Delegate to U.S. House from the District of Columbia, Omari Musa, polled 6,702 votes last month. If he had polled as much as 7,500 votes, the SWP would now be ballot-qualified in D.C.
Only once has the SWP been a qualified party in D.C., That was immediately after the 1976 election, when the SWP polled 11,237 votes for Dorothy Hawkinson, its nominee for City-Council-at-Large.
Musa polled almost as many votes as the party’s presidential nominee, Alyson Kennedy, received in the entire nation.. She polled 6,791 votes. She was on the ballot in Colorado, Louisiana, Minnesota, Tennessee, Vermont, and Washington. She did not file for write-in status in any state.
Musa was listed first on the D.C. ballot last month. He outpolled the Green Party nominee for Delegate to the U.S. House.
The Socialist Workers Party began running candidates for federal office in 1940, and ran its first presidential nominee in 1948. At one time or another it was a ballot-qualified party in Alabama, Arizona, Delaware, Florida, Michigan, New Mexico, North Carolina,Texas, and Vermont. Bernie Sanders was one of its presidential elector candidates in Vermont in 1980. It has never won a partisan office.
Surprised they didn’t do better. DC is full of communists.
Every election is NEW.
EQUAL nom pets for INDIVIDUAL candidates.
Most members of the so-called Communist Party actually support the Democratic Party, Ed, they’ve been endorsing their Presidential candidates for at least several elections now. So even if there actually were many members of the Communist Party in DC, and I’m sure there aren’t since the far-right have a habit of claiming that everyone to the left of Ayn Rand is a Communist, they mostly would have voted for Biden and the Democrats anyways instead of any real left-wing candidates.
Biden is a communist, Harris even more so.
DC = District of Communism — since 1930/1932 elections.
Agreed commie Harris.
D.C. Is definitely communist. 100 percent.
The whole swamp there needs to be drained and disinfected with chlorine.
Has the SWP ever been ballot qualified in a state/area that required primary elections? I think the states listed were all places where they could either nominate via convention or when unopposed primary candidates weren’t listed on the ballot.
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Before and AFTER Oct 1929 BALLOT ACCESS.
AFTER – Purge of minor parties OFF ballots by the joint D/R gangsters and their puppet court HACKS.
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EQUAL NOM PETS
PR AND APPV
TOTSOP
Ian —
DC is a Potomac River SWAMPland — nonstop pumps in DC.
Before AirCon — a very dangerous UN-healthy area.
Hacks often escape in JUL-AUG esp. — while tourists look at tourist stuff.