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Placating the South was necessary because Alabama Governor George Wallace entered the election as a third party candidate for the American Independent Party, running on a platform of extreme ...

In 1964, 1972, and 1976 he ran as a Democrat, failing three times to receive the party's nomination. In 1968, running as an American Independent, he was popular enough with voters to secure a ...

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Jim Walden, who left the Democratic Party years ago, is challenging a law that bans the word “independence” on a ballot line. By Emma G. Fitzsimmons A prominent lawyer who is a candidate for ...