Presidential Also-Rans Running Mates 2000
Presidential Also-Rans Running Mates 2000 Part I: Gore-Lieberman Leslie H. Southwick This article is a pocket part of sorts to Judge Southwick’s Presidential Also-Rans Running Mates, 1788 through 1996 (McFarland 2d ed. 1998), a useful and readable, even browseable, book that should not be permitted to go out of date. This pocket part covers Democratic Party candidates Al Gore and Joe Lieberman. A second part, which will appear in our Spring 2004 issue, covers Green Party candidates Ralph Nader and Winona LaDuke. – The Editors Nominations President – Winona LaDuke. This was the same ticket that had been nominated in 1996. Green Party Convention (2nd): June 24-25, Republican National Convention (37th): 2000, at Renaissance Hotel in Denver, July 31-August 3, 2000, at the First Union Cen- Colorado. There were about 300 delegates ter, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. President – representing 39 states. President – Ralph George W. Bush, nominated on the Õrst ballot Nader, nominated on the Õrst ballot with 295 after a four-day “rolling roll call” of states, with votes. Ten votes were cast for Stephen Gaskin, 2,058 votes. Alan Keyes received 6 votes, John described as an “aging hippie” who was some- McCain 1, and there was 1 abstention. Major what prominent in the 1960s counterculture of GOP candidates during the primaries were San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury district. Lamar Alexander (Tenn.), Gary Bauer (Va.), Gaskin wanted universal health care, Pat Buchanan (D.C.), Elizabeth Dole (N.C.), campaign Õnance reform, and to decriminal- Steve Forbes (N.J.), Alan Keyes (Md.), Orrin ize marijuana. Ten votes also were received by Hatch (Utah), John McCain (Ariz.), Dan Jello Biafra.
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