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This is just a brief follow-up to yesterday's entry...
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Interesting historical note: This would not be the first time there was
a vice presidential candidate named Jim Lawrence running on a racially
balanced team. Just four years ago the Socialist Equality Party nominated
the team of Bill Van Auken for president and Jim Lawrence for vice president.
In that case it was the presidential candidate who was the person of pallor
and the vice presidential hopeful who was the person of color. That Jim
Lawrence was a retired auto worker (30 years in a General Motors factory
in Ohio). The Van Auken/Lawrence team won approximately 2400 votes. (If
not for the spoiler roles played by Badnarik on the Libertarian party ticket
and Ralph Nader on the Reform party ticket, plus the Bush/Chaney and Kerry/Edwards
candidacies cluttering up the field and siphoning off votes, many voters
might have switched to VanAuken and Lawrence.)
There are so many reasons why Obama should pick me as his running mate
(although they are just so obvious that there is no need to list them).
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