Robby Wells is a former football coach who made a habit of running for president. He first made a bid for the seat in 2012, first with the aim of winning the Remainer nomination for Ross Perot’s Reform Party and then to see if the conservative Constitution Party would be interested. (It wasn’t.) In 2016, he tried to run as a Democratic candidate, but then converted He ran as an independent when he wasn’t invited to the Democratic debate. (“Consensus”, his website claim“The point is that I was blocked due to fear of my debating skills.”) He once again attempted to be nominated by the Democratic Party in 2020, and ran as a candidate for the party this year. great Rock singer Andrew W.K.
Wells is on the ballot in exactly one state this month: Rhode Island. According to the current count Dave Leip’s U.S. Presidential Election Atlashe has 358 votes; The Rhode Island Board of Elections gave his odds of victory slightly higher. 359. Either way, he’s in last place.
That may change, as Wells is closely followed by Bill “Doc” Stodden of the Socialist Party of America. Bill “Doc” Stodden’s current Leip site total is 361. Stodden’s party is a descendant of the famous Socialist Party. socialist party Eugene Debs and Norman Thomas didn’t technically come into being until the group split into three competing factions in the 1970s. But neither Stodden nor his running mate, Stephanie Cholensky, are democratic socialists in the Debs-Thomas mold. Both are anarcho-communists.. And anarcho-communists traditionally do not vote. This may help explain why Stodden is so close to last place.
But for now, the last-place medal belongs to Wells and his “Eaglenomics” philosophy. quote again From his website — “The best ideas from the left and the right to restore America’s prosperity and give every citizen a chance at the American dream.” Unless you count write-in votes, last place in this case is a huge tie between everyone whose name is scrawled on exactly one ballot. Unfortunately, we do not have a national database of all writing across the United States, but Vermont does. mail Check your total online. And in the Green Mountain State, players who received one vote included Doug Burgum, Steve Garvey, Clint Eastwood; dolemitePresidential Assassin Leon Czolgosz (for those who like to vote) and Bullet), JFK Jr., Randy Marsh south parkand “Dwayne Elizondo” (presumably short for President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Camacho) stupidity), etc. There was also one vote on the Sinwar/Nasrallah ticket.
Before you assert that those voters didn’t take their sacred democratic duty very seriously, remember that there was never a serious chance that anyone other than Vice President Kamala Harris would carry Vermont this year. If these citizens wasted their votes, so were the Vermonters who voted for Donald Trump. And if it’s defensible to send a signal by voting for Trump in a solid blue state or voting for Harris in a solid red state, who are we to judge who sends a signal by voting for Dolemite?
Anyway: Say what you will about Eaglenomics or the tenets of anarcho-communism. But regardless of whether it’s Wells or Stoddard who ultimately comes in last place, you can rest assured that unlike the celebrity pollsters, he won’t do anything. impairment.
Or at least he won’t cause any damage through the political system. Because of what happened last time I wrote a report on rear racing, I have to add a caveat.
Four years ago, I interviewed Zac Scalf, the lowest-voting independent candidate in the 2020 election, with 29 votes. He said the whole thing was a social experiment to see how much support an unknown friend not involved in the campaign could garner by getting on the ballot in just one week. It was all very attractive, and it seemed that way until 2022, when my story about the Scalf campaign suddenly gained a second wave of traffic. The former candidate just He killed a woman and then committed suicide.. Clearly, there is only a thin line separating the charming Americana from the wildness of the Native Americans.
