Why did the Socialist Workers' Party do so well in Arizona in 1972?
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« on: January 25, 2017, 03:55:40 PM »

Kind of a random observation, but I was looking at some strong historical third-party showings, and I noticed this. Linda Jenness, candidate of the Socialist Workers' Party (which was actually a communist party) in 1972, who was not technically eligible for the Presidency as she was only 31, and who had coauthored a pamphlet with Fidel Castro, received 0.11% of the vote nationally in 1972.

She received a rather ridiculous 4.74% of the vote in Arizona; she was on the ballot in 25 states and failed to break 2% anywhere else (and the only other place she broke 1% was Louisiana). It wasn't a home-state effect, since she was from Georgia and was actually a perennial candidate in Georgia. Why the random strong Arizona vote? No other leftist third-party has ever done remotely as well in Arizona ever again.
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« Reply #1 on: January 25, 2017, 04:38:14 PM »

Atlas says it was due to "ballot irregularities" in two counties.
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