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That ambitious statement, greeted by boisterous cheering, climaxed the effort Commoner, Terkel and about 100 others began last August to bring the Citizens' Party into existence. In eight months of hurried preparations, those founders managed to create party organizations in 33 states, and put Commoner on the ballot in four of those states...
Proponents of the commission, who won approval of the concept by a 4-1 margin in a referendum ballot last November, told the council that without the board private groups might duplicate efforts...
...needed to gain the presidency. Anderson already has missed the filing deadlines for independent candidates in five states with 52 electoral votes: Kentucky, Maine, Maryland, New Mexico and Ohio. He must, and will, file petitions by this week's deadline for putting his name on the New Jersey ballot in November. While that step is not irrevocable, he apparently feels it will bring him so close to a formal candidacy that he might as well go all the way and make his announcement...
Getting on the ballot and raising money are only the immediate, pressing problems: the deeper one is the tendency of voters, even if they admire a third-party or independent candidate, to write off his cause as hopeless on Election Day and cast their ballots for the Democratic or Republican nominee. Anderson is well aware of the discouraging history of third-party and independent candidacies. He has resolved that he will drop out by fall, if his candidacy seems to be turning into a "spoiler" operation, in which his campaign becomes only a nuisance to the established candidates...
...Republican side, the delegate outcome was uncertain because the state elects delegates through a "blind ballot" system. ABC News last night projected that Reagan garnered 44 of the state's 83 delegates, to Bush...