ABC News Story on Robert F. Kennedy’s Relationships with Certain Minor Parties

Posted on by May 5, 2024

ABC News has this story about Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.’s attempts to win minor party nominations.  The story is incorrect when it says that the Alliance Party is ballot-qualified in Minnesota and that the Reform Party is on the ballot in Florida.

Also the story would have been better if it had explained that previous independent presidential candidates have followed the same strategy.  In 1924 Robert La Follette, an independent progressive presidential candidate, won the nomination of the Socialist Party and the Farmer-Labor Party, which helped him with ballot access.  He would not have been on in California without the Socialist Party nomination.

In 1968, George Wallace depended on the ballot-qualified Conservative Party to place him on the Kansas ballot.  In 1980, John Anderson used the Liberal Party to gain access in New York.  Ralph Nader in his 2004 and 2008 independent runs, depended on many one-state qualified parties.  Lenora Fulani, in her two runs in 1988 and 1992, did as well.  Even Theodore Roosevelt in 1912 was the nominee of the Republican Parties of California and South Dakota.  The only person who was on the ballot in all states, in the last 100 years, who didn’t depend on a nomination by a previously qualified party, was Ross Perot in 1992.

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ABC News Story on Robert F. Kennedy’s Relationships with Certain Minor Parties — 12 Comments

  1. No mention of the biggest minor party of them all, the Libertarian Party, eh?

  2. Kennedy is not seeking the Libertarian nomination you fucking commie retard.

  4. There are at least four state LP affiliates that have severed ties with the LNC that RFK, Jr could conceivably target.

  5. Has the Reform Party filed the necessary paperwork to re-establish itself as a recognized political party in Florida.

  8. Reform has had their party status revoked in Florida as they missed their Final Notice due date. The “People’s Party” is also about to have their ballot access revoked. However, are you sure that Independence-Alliance is not ballot qualified in Minnesota? The party is still listed as a minor party on Minnesota’s SOS Election and Voting page.

    There also seems to be some confusion with their status in Connecticut. They are affiliated with the Independent Party of Connecticut according to Alliance’s website and the party is listed as a minor party in Connecticut’s SOS page called “Minor Parties in Connecticut”

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