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...when Ronald Reagan's coattails suffocated Democrats everywhere. But two years later he was elected state attorney general, which gave him the chance to make a name for himself on consumer issues. By 1988 he was ready for the Senate race, in which he beat Lowell Weicker, Connecticut's most famously independent Republican...
Turns out there's a good reason why John McCain's still a Republican. Why Nader went with the Greens. Why Jesse Ventura sits unaffiliated in Minnesota, and why former Connecticut senator Lowell Weicker and New York mogul-o-maniac Donald Trump stayed on the sidelines. Why Ross Perot, according to his assistant, is "out of the country...
...Party founder Perot is on the shelf, Jesse Ventura quit long ago, and even Lowell Weicker had the good sense not to get involved. Perotista candidate John Hagelin doesn't even register on national polls, and Buchanan, meanwhile, has lost his religious righties to George W. Bush and his labor/protectionists to Ralph Nader, and is stuck at one percent. It's a political truism that there's room for only one third-party candidate in a nation that can hardly be bothered to vote for the other two, and Nader...
...reporter and editorial writer at the Nashville Tennessean, his future strategist was sitting at the next desk as a summer intern. Eskew later made a reputation for simple, funny, devastatingly effective political advertisements, the most famous being a cartoon series in which he portrayed popular Republican Connecticut Senator Lowell Weicker as a big, lazy bear snoozing through votes and waking up ornery. The ads, launched late in the 1988 campaign, did much to help Joe Lieberman score the only Democratic upset of that year's Senate elections...
...Both Weicker and Trump suffer from similar problems, the former with no apparent base of support and the latter alienating everyone except the extremely rich. It's no wonder this hodge-podge party of political outcasts and mavericks is suffering from a serious identity crisis...