Charles
.Michael Pugliese
There is always a fringe leftist party one can vote for. Even in 1952. MIAc should have checked the spelling on a few of these. Dave Walters of the MIA lives near San Francisco, Hallinan is hardly a unknown name there.
http://www.marxists.org/history/usa/government/elections/president/timeline. htm
U.S. Presidential Elections: Leftist Votes 1948 Progressive Party, Henry Wallace Sen. Glen H. Taylor 1,157,326 (Half of which came from New York) 1952 Vincent Hillinan Charlotte Bass 140,023 1968 Gus Hall Charlene Mitchell 1,075 1972 Gus Hall Jarvis Tyner 25,595 (McGovern, a delegate to the Progressive Party convention in 1948 received 29,170,383, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/U.S._presidential_election,_1972
"McGovern suffered a landslide defeat of 61%-38% to Nixon.Nixon's percentage of the popular vote was only sightly less than Lyndon Johnson's record in the 1964 election.) 1976 Gus Hall Jarvis Tyner 58,992 1980 Gus Hall Angela Davis 43,871 1984 Gus Hall Angela Davis 36,386 Peace and Freedom 1968 Eldrige Cleaver Dr. Douglas F. Dowd 136,385 Socialist Party 1932 Norman Thomas James H. Mauer 881,951 1936 Norman Thomas George A. Nelson 187,785 1988 Willa Kenoyer Ron Ehrenreich (Former husband of Barbara, IIRC) 3,882 1992 J. Quinn Brisben Barbara Garson 3,057 1996 Mary Cal Hollis Eric Chester (The latter author of a scurrilous attack on Norman Thomas a a CIA agent of influence.) 4,764 2000 David McReynolds Mary Cal Hollis 5,602
Workers World Party 1992 Gloria E. LaRiva ? 181 1996 Monica Moorehead Gloria LaRiva 29,082 2000 Monica Moorehead Gloria E. LaRiva 4,795