Reply #10: John Anderson

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Here's a quick history lesson. Don't worry - his name hasn't come up much in the past two decades. He's still alive, though.

http://www.geocities.com/dave_enrich/ctd/3p.anderson.html

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/debatingourdestiny/interviews/anderson.html

http://www.fact-index.com/j/jo/john_bayard_anderson.html



John Bayard Anderson (born February 15, 1922) was a U.S. Representative from Illinois and presidential candidate in the 1980 election.

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In 1980, Anderson entered the Republican primary for the U.S. presidential election, in a crowded field that included Ronald Reagan and George H. W. Bush. That spring, he dropped out of the primary race to run as an independent candidate for the fall general election. His poll numbers surged early, but waned before the election, and Anderson received only 7% of the vote in the election. His inability to overcome the spoiler effect in that election would later lead him to become an advocate for Instant Runoff Voting.

He then became a visiting professor at series of universities: Stanford University, University of Illinois College of Law, Brandeis University, Bryn Mawr College, Oregon State University, University of Massachusetts, and Nova Southeastern University (his most recent post). He has also served as Chair of the Center for Voting and Democracy from 1996 to the present day (as of this writing in 2002), and as President of the World Federalist Association.