Brian Moore presidential campaign, 2008
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Brian Patrick Moore
, a local politician from California
, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States
in St. Louis, Missouri
, on October 19, 2007. The same month he was declared the nominee of the Socialist Party USA
for the 2008 presidential election
. The SPUSA national convention
elected Stewart Alexis Alexander
of California
as Moore's Vice Presidential nominee.
During his campaign, Moore focused on the American-led wars abroad
, labor rights and community ownership of corporations. Throughout his campaign Moore failed to gather much support in the states he had access to, and ended in 11th place overall, receiving 6,555 votes nationwide. Moore was not able to increase the party's voterbase, and instead, it lowered itself from 10 to 6 thousand votes nationwide from the previous presidential election
. Moore's campaign received 25,000 American dollars.
While minor, Moore managed to earn much needed media interest in the later part of the election mostly due to John McCain
's red baiting
against Barack Obama
and making an appeal to the 5th US Circuit Court to get ballot access
in the state of Louisiana
. His media campaign included writing articles in several leading newspapers such as The New Republic
and the National Journal
and making appearances on television, most notably The Colbert Report.
On October 19, 2007 the Socialist Party USA held their national convention
in St. Louis, Missouri
. Brian Moore
was voted the party's presidential candidate, with four out of 11 opponents earning less votes than him combined. He earned the majority during the third election round. Later, Stewart Alexander
was selected by the party as Moore's Vice President
ial candidate. A week later, Moore stood as a candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party, against Ralph Nader
, Gloria La Riva, and Cynthia McKinney
. Nader became the presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party, earning 46 votes to Moore's 10 votes. He later stood as a candidate for the Natural Law Party, against Nader in the state of Michigan. Nader won the candidacy with a big majority. Moore won the presidential candidacy for the Natural Law Party of Mississippi.
After not completing the necessary paper work in time to field candidates in the state of Louisiana
, the Socialist Party USA along with the Libertarian Party
lost their respective privileges to field write-in candidates and party affiliated candidates in the state. Mark R. Brown of the Libertarian Party, along with Moore made an appeal. The 5th US Circuit Court overturned US District Judge James Brady's order to include the Libertarian candidate on the Louisiana ballot, but upheld their ruling towards the Socialist Party USA, concluding that they had "filed too little, too late". Another reason is that the Socialist Party USA is an "un-recognized" organization according to the law of the state of Louisiana.
This election marked the first time since the days of the Socialist Party of America
, that a socialist candidate was on a ballot in the state of Ohio
. The US District Court approved by the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division Judge Edmund Sargus. Furthermore, this also marked the first time the Socialist Party USA won a ballot access lawsuit in a federal court. Moore was pleased with the outcome, claiming it would have an "historical consequence" for third party politics in the US. During their presidential campaign, the party earned little funding from supporters, with Moore remarking that the only candidates able or having a slim chance to win were "millionaires, or sellouts to corporate America". He further commented that it would be impossible for a third party candidate to win an election without ballot access in all fifty states. While highly vocal that he did not even have a slim chance of winning, he believed there would be a good chance of getting on the ballot in at least 20 states, because of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
were he managed to receive 2,731 votes. His weakest showings were in Kentucky
and Minnesota
, were he managed to gain 7 votes in each state. Moore was not able to enlarge the party's voterbase, but instead the voterbase shrunk by over 4-thousand votes nationwide from the previous election fronted by Walt Brown
.
Being a former member of the Democratic Party
, Brian Moore said he moved to socialism because the system wasn't as bad as it was made out to be, further stating that it was "mixed up with McCarthy
and Stalin
and the Red Scare
". He ended his thoughts on the matter by clearly stating that socialism wasn't communism
. He has also noted that even before joining the Socialist Party, he "always promoted a national socialized health plan, antiwar, favored a guaranteed annual income, advocated worker control and elimination of corporate control."
Moore has stated at various times that he promoted a platform to inform Americans of an alternative option in American politics. He believes that capitalism
was a selfish system which focused on the wealthy and not the weak and the poor. Moore felt that "capitalism is an economic system where decisions are made at the top and come down in a dictatorial fashion" He felt that redistributing the wealth between the rich and the poor would give the United States a stronger public sector
, which would in turn focus more on renewable energy
and the needy. During his presidential campaign he claimed that the current economic system was falling apart because of capitalist greed. Moore guaranteed an income of "approximately $10,000 per family a year and decent housing for all families". He also called for the "elimination of exorbitant executive salaries, outsourcing of jobs and companies, and calls for an end to for-profit corporations". When asked what made socialism better than capitalism, Moore said;
Moore has publicly criticized claims that Barack Obama
is a socialist, saying he is offended by this characterization. Further stating: "It’s misleading for Republicans to say that. They know he’s not a socialist... It seems like both major party candidates are trying to use socialism to their advantage, in a negative and in a positive way". According to the weekly periodical, The Nation
, Moore said Obama along with John McCain
was "bought and sold" by Wall Street
, saying that the two major candidates cannot change their opinion, since they are both "imprisoned" by the "corporate machine".
Moore was against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and supported free and accessible health insurance for all. He also wanted to transfer ownership of corporations to the workers. When discussing the War on Terror
, Moore felt it was destroying small communities throughout the country with higher taxes and more pressure on the local governments. Moore and Vice Presidential candidate Stewart Alexander supported a 50% reduction of the United States Department of Defense
spending, and using the other 50% to improve veteran benefits. Alexander proposed that retired veterans with 10–30 years of military service should receive an income of $15–30 thousand annually from the state.
chairman Jonathan M Hill appeared on AlJazeera, discussing strategic development plans for third parties
in the United States. The broadcast was viewed by over 100 million viewers worldwide. He also made two appearances on Fox News, first on the TV special The Rescue Rumble and later on Your World
, both shows were hosted by Neil Cavuto
. He later appeared as a guest on the Comedy Central
TV series The Colbert Report, a news satire
show about modern American politics. According to Moore, the decision to have him on the show came from Stephen Colbert
, the current host for the TV series. A spokeswoman from Comedy Central would not comment on the motives behind the selection. Moore also wrote several articles in The Nation, The New Republic
and National Journal
, and the newspapers The St. Petersburg Times, The Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune
. The question of whether or not Barack Obama
was a socialist, led to an increased interest in Moore during the election. The Left Party
, a Swedish democratic socialist political party, officially endorsed Moore for president during a televised debate in Sweden.
Brian Moore (politician)
Brian Patrick Moore is an United States politician and founder of antiwar organization Nature Coast Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was the presidential nominee of the Socialist Party USA for the 2008 United States presidential election. He waged several campaigns for mayor and city council in...
, a local politician from California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, announced his candidacy for the presidency of the United States
President of the United States
The President of the United States of America is the head of state and head of government of the United States. The president leads the executive branch of the federal government and is the commander-in-chief of the United States Armed Forces....
in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
, on October 19, 2007. The same month he was declared the nominee of the Socialist Party USA
Socialist Party USA
The Socialist Party USA is a multi-tendency democratic-socialist party in the United States. The party states that it is the rightful continuation and successor to the tradition of the Socialist Party of America, which had lasted from 1901 to 1972.The party is officially committed to left-wing...
for the 2008 presidential election
United States presidential election, 2008
The United States presidential election of 2008 was the 56th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on November 4, 2008. Democrat Barack Obama, then the junior United States Senator from Illinois, defeated Republican John McCain, the senior U.S. Senator from Arizona. Obama received 365...
. The SPUSA national convention
National Convention
During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 . It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic...
elected Stewart Alexis Alexander
Stewart Alexander (politician)
Stewart Alexis Alexander is an American democratic socialist politician, presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA in the 2012 election., and former SPUSA nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election....
of California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
as Moore's Vice Presidential nominee.
During his campaign, Moore focused on the American-led wars abroad
War on Terror
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
, labor rights and community ownership of corporations. Throughout his campaign Moore failed to gather much support in the states he had access to, and ended in 11th place overall, receiving 6,555 votes nationwide. Moore was not able to increase the party's voterbase, and instead, it lowered itself from 10 to 6 thousand votes nationwide from the previous presidential election
United States presidential election, 2004
The United States presidential election of 2004 was the United States' 55th quadrennial presidential election. It was held on Tuesday, November 2, 2004. Republican Party candidate and incumbent President George W. Bush defeated Democratic Party candidate John Kerry, the then-junior U.S. Senator...
. Moore's campaign received 25,000 American dollars.
While minor, Moore managed to earn much needed media interest in the later part of the election mostly due to John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
's red baiting
Red-baiting
Red-baiting is the act of accusing, denouncing, attacking or persecuting an individual or group as communist, socialist, or anarchist, or sympathetic toward communism, socialism, or anarchism. The word "red" in "red-baiting" is derived from the red flag signifying radical left-wing politics. In the...
against Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
and making an appeal to the 5th US Circuit Court to get ballot access
Ballot access
Ballot access rules, called nomination rules outside the United States, regulate the conditions under which a candidate or political party is either entitled to stand for election or to appear on voters' ballots...
in the state of Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
. His media campaign included writing articles in several leading newspapers such as The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
and the National Journal
National Journal
National Journal is a nonpartisan American weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends. National Journal was first published in 1969. Times Mirror owned the magazine from 1986 to 1997, when it was purchased by David G. Bradley...
and making appearances on television, most notably The Colbert Report.
Campaign developments
National Convention
During the French Revolution, the National Convention or Convention, in France, comprised the constitutional and legislative assembly which sat from 20 September 1792 to 26 October 1795 . It held executive power in France during the first years of the French First Republic...
in St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis, Missouri
St. Louis is an independent city on the eastern border of Missouri, United States. With a population of 319,294, it was the 58th-largest U.S. city at the 2010 U.S. Census. The Greater St...
. Brian Moore
Brian Moore (politician)
Brian Patrick Moore is an United States politician and founder of antiwar organization Nature Coast Coalition for Peace & Justice. He was the presidential nominee of the Socialist Party USA for the 2008 United States presidential election. He waged several campaigns for mayor and city council in...
was voted the party's presidential candidate, with four out of 11 opponents earning less votes than him combined. He earned the majority during the third election round. Later, Stewart Alexander
Stewart Alexander (politician)
Stewart Alexis Alexander is an American democratic socialist politician, presidential nominee for the Socialist Party USA in the 2012 election., and former SPUSA nominee for Vice President of the United States in the 2008 election....
was selected by the party as Moore's Vice President
Vice president
A vice president is an officer in government or business who is below a president in rank. The name comes from the Latin vice meaning 'in place of'. In some countries, the vice president is called the deputy president...
ial candidate. A week later, Moore stood as a candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party, against Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader
Ralph Nader is an American political activist, as well as an author, lecturer, and attorney. Areas of particular concern to Nader include consumer protection, humanitarianism, environmentalism, and democratic government....
, Gloria La Riva, and Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia Ann McKinney is a former US Congresswoman and a member of the Green Party since 2007. As a member of the Democratic Party, she served six terms as a member of the United States House of Representatives. In 2008, the Green Party nominated McKinney for President of the United States...
. Nader became the presidential candidate for the Peace and Freedom Party, earning 46 votes to Moore's 10 votes. He later stood as a candidate for the Natural Law Party, against Nader in the state of Michigan. Nader won the candidacy with a big majority. Moore won the presidential candidacy for the Natural Law Party of Mississippi.
After not completing the necessary paper work in time to field candidates in the state of Louisiana
Louisiana
Louisiana is a state located in the southern region of the United States of America. Its capital is Baton Rouge and largest city is New Orleans. Louisiana is the only state in the U.S. with political subdivisions termed parishes, which are local governments equivalent to counties...
, the Socialist Party USA along with the Libertarian Party
Libertarian Party (United States)
The Libertarian Party is the third largest and fastest growing political party in the United States. The political platform of the Libertarian Party reflects its brand of libertarianism, favoring minimally regulated, laissez-faire markets, strong civil liberties, minimally regulated migration...
lost their respective privileges to field write-in candidates and party affiliated candidates in the state. Mark R. Brown of the Libertarian Party, along with Moore made an appeal. The 5th US Circuit Court overturned US District Judge James Brady's order to include the Libertarian candidate on the Louisiana ballot, but upheld their ruling towards the Socialist Party USA, concluding that they had "filed too little, too late". Another reason is that the Socialist Party USA is an "un-recognized" organization according to the law of the state of Louisiana.
This election marked the first time since the days of the Socialist Party of America
Socialist Party of America
The Socialist Party of America was a multi-tendency democratic-socialist political party in the United States, formed in 1901 by a merger between the three-year-old Social Democratic Party of America and disaffected elements of the Socialist Labor Party which had split from the main organization...
, that a socialist candidate was on a ballot in the state of Ohio
Ohio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
. The US District Court approved by the Southern District of Ohio Eastern Division Judge Edmund Sargus. Furthermore, this also marked the first time the Socialist Party USA won a ballot access lawsuit in a federal court. Moore was pleased with the outcome, claiming it would have an "historical consequence" for third party politics in the US. During their presidential campaign, the party earned little funding from supporters, with Moore remarking that the only candidates able or having a slim chance to win were "millionaires, or sellouts to corporate America". He further commented that it would be impossible for a third party candidate to win an election without ballot access in all fifty states. While highly vocal that he did not even have a slim chance of winning, he believed there would be a good chance of getting on the ballot in at least 20 states, because of the financial crisis of 2007–2010.
Results
Moore ended in 11th place overall, receiving 6,555 votes nationwide out of over 125 million cast. He thus missed, by a large margin, the 5 percent needed to qualify the Socialist Party USA for federally distributed public funding in the next election. His best showings were in Tennessee, where he received 1,326 votes out of over 2 million votes cast, and in OhioOhio
Ohio is a Midwestern state in the United States. The 34th largest state by area in the U.S.,it is the 7th‑most populous with over 11.5 million residents, containing several major American cities and seven metropolitan areas with populations of 500,000 or more.The state's capital is Columbus...
were he managed to receive 2,731 votes. His weakest showings were in Kentucky
Kentucky
The Commonwealth of Kentucky is a state located in the East Central United States of America. As classified by the United States Census Bureau, Kentucky is a Southern state, more specifically in the East South Central region. Kentucky is one of four U.S. states constituted as a commonwealth...
and Minnesota
Minnesota
Minnesota is a U.S. state located in the Midwestern United States. The twelfth largest state of the U.S., it is the twenty-first most populous, with 5.3 million residents. Minnesota was carved out of the eastern half of the Minnesota Territory and admitted to the Union as the thirty-second state...
, were he managed to gain 7 votes in each state. Moore was not able to enlarge the party's voterbase, but instead the voterbase shrunk by over 4-thousand votes nationwide from the previous election fronted by Walt Brown
Walt Brown
Walter Frederick Brown is an American politician and was the presidential candidate of the Socialist Party USA in the 2004 elections. Brown became a socialist in 1948. He served as Democratic member of the Oregon State Senate from 1975 to 1987. Brown also served as a Socialist Party of Oregon...
.
Position and beliefs
Democratic Party (United States)
The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, along with the Republican Party. The party's socially liberal and progressive platform is largely considered center-left in the U.S. political spectrum. The party has the lengthiest record of continuous...
, Brian Moore said he moved to socialism because the system wasn't as bad as it was made out to be, further stating that it was "mixed up with McCarthy
Joseph McCarthy
Joseph Raymond "Joe" McCarthy was an American politician who served as a Republican U.S. Senator from the state of Wisconsin from 1947 until his death in 1957...
and Stalin
Joseph Stalin
Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin was the Premier of the Soviet Union from 6 May 1941 to 5 March 1953. He was among the Bolshevik revolutionaries who brought about the October Revolution and had held the position of first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union's Central Committee...
and the Red Scare
Red Scare
Durrell Blackwell Durrell Blackwell The term Red Scare denotes two distinct periods of strong Anti-Communism in the United States: the First Red Scare, from 1919 to 1920, and the Second Red Scare, from 1947 to 1957. The First Red Scare was about worker revolution and...
". He ended his thoughts on the matter by clearly stating that socialism wasn't communism
Communism
Communism is a social, political and economic ideology that aims at the establishment of a classless, moneyless, revolutionary and stateless socialist society structured upon common ownership of the means of production...
. He has also noted that even before joining the Socialist Party, he "always promoted a national socialized health plan, antiwar, favored a guaranteed annual income, advocated worker control and elimination of corporate control."
Moore has stated at various times that he promoted a platform to inform Americans of an alternative option in American politics. He believes that capitalism
Capitalism
Capitalism is an economic system that became dominant in the Western world following the demise of feudalism. There is no consensus on the precise definition nor on how the term should be used as a historical category...
was a selfish system which focused on the wealthy and not the weak and the poor. Moore felt that "capitalism is an economic system where decisions are made at the top and come down in a dictatorial fashion" He felt that redistributing the wealth between the rich and the poor would give the United States a stronger public sector
Public sector
The public sector, sometimes referred to as the state sector, is a part of the state that deals with either the production, delivery and allocation of goods and services by and for the government or its citizens, whether national, regional or local/municipal.Examples of public sector activity range...
, which would in turn focus more on renewable energy
Renewable energy
Renewable energy is energy which comes from natural resources such as sunlight, wind, rain, tides, and geothermal heat, which are renewable . About 16% of global final energy consumption comes from renewables, with 10% coming from traditional biomass, which is mainly used for heating, and 3.4% from...
and the needy. During his presidential campaign he claimed that the current economic system was falling apart because of capitalist greed. Moore guaranteed an income of "approximately $10,000 per family a year and decent housing for all families". He also called for the "elimination of exorbitant executive salaries, outsourcing of jobs and companies, and calls for an end to for-profit corporations". When asked what made socialism better than capitalism, Moore said;
Moore has publicly criticized claims that Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
is a socialist, saying he is offended by this characterization. Further stating: "It’s misleading for Republicans to say that. They know he’s not a socialist... It seems like both major party candidates are trying to use socialism to their advantage, in a negative and in a positive way". According to the weekly periodical, The Nation
The Nation
The Nation is the oldest continuously published weekly magazine in the United States. The periodical, devoted to politics and culture, is self-described as "the flagship of the left." Founded on July 6, 1865, It is published by The Nation Company, L.P., at 33 Irving Place, New York City.The Nation...
, Moore said Obama along with John McCain
John McCain
John Sidney McCain III is the senior United States Senator from Arizona. He was the Republican nominee for president in the 2008 United States election....
was "bought and sold" by Wall Street
Wall Street
Wall Street refers to the financial district of New York City, named after and centered on the eight-block-long street running from Broadway to South Street on the East River in Lower Manhattan. Over time, the term has become a metonym for the financial markets of the United States as a whole, or...
, saying that the two major candidates cannot change their opinion, since they are both "imprisoned" by the "corporate machine".
Moore was against the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, and supported free and accessible health insurance for all. He also wanted to transfer ownership of corporations to the workers. When discussing the War on Terror
War on Terror
The War on Terror is a term commonly applied to an international military campaign led by the United States and the United Kingdom with the support of other North Atlantic Treaty Organisation as well as non-NATO countries...
, Moore felt it was destroying small communities throughout the country with higher taxes and more pressure on the local governments. Moore and Vice Presidential candidate Stewart Alexander supported a 50% reduction of the United States Department of Defense
United States Department of Defense
The United States Department of Defense is the U.S...
spending, and using the other 50% to improve veteran benefits. Alexander proposed that retired veterans with 10–30 years of military service should receive an income of $15–30 thousand annually from the state.
Media campaign
Moore along with America FirstAmerica First Party (2002)
The America First Party is a paleoconservative third party in the United States.The party was formed in 2002 when a group of Pat Buchanan supporters left the Reform Party. The party is pro-life, opposes all gun control, seeks to end affirmative action, racial quotas, and illegal and unlimited...
chairman Jonathan M Hill appeared on AlJazeera, discussing strategic development plans for third parties
Third party (United States)
The term third party is used in the United States for any and all political parties in the United States other than one of the two major parties . The term can also refer to independent politicians not affiliated with any party at all and to write-in candidates.The United States has had a...
in the United States. The broadcast was viewed by over 100 million viewers worldwide. He also made two appearances on Fox News, first on the TV special The Rescue Rumble and later on Your World
Your World with Neil Cavuto
Your World with Neil Cavuto , which debuted as the Cavuto Business Report on the network's launch in 1996, is an American business television program appearing on Fox News Channel.-About the program:...
, both shows were hosted by Neil Cavuto
Neil Cavuto
Neil Patrick Cavuto is an American television anchor and commentator on the Fox Business Network and host of three television programs, Your World with Neil Cavuto and Cavuto on Business, both on the Fox News Channel and Cavuto on sister channel Fox Business Network.Cavuto also tapes a nightly...
. He later appeared as a guest on the Comedy Central
Comedy Central
Comedy Central is an American cable television and satellite television channel that carries comedy programming, both original and syndicated....
TV series The Colbert Report, a news satire
News satire
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show about modern American politics. According to Moore, the decision to have him on the show came from Stephen Colbert
Stephen Colbert
Stephen Tyrone Colbert is an American political satirist, writer, comedian, television host, and actor. He is the host of Comedy Central's The Colbert Report, a satirical news show in which Colbert portrays a caricatured version of conservative political pundits.Colbert originally studied to be an...
, the current host for the TV series. A spokeswoman from Comedy Central would not comment on the motives behind the selection. Moore also wrote several articles in The Nation, The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
and National Journal
National Journal
National Journal is a nonpartisan American weekly magazine that reports on the current political environment and emerging political and policy trends. National Journal was first published in 1969. Times Mirror owned the magazine from 1986 to 1997, when it was purchased by David G. Bradley...
, and the newspapers The St. Petersburg Times, The Los Angeles Times and the Chicago Tribune
Chicago Tribune
The Chicago Tribune is a major daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, and the flagship publication of the Tribune Company. Formerly self-styled as the "World's Greatest Newspaper" , it remains the most read daily newspaper of the Chicago metropolitan area and the Great Lakes region and is...
. The question of whether or not Barack Obama
Barack Obama
Barack Hussein Obama II is the 44th and current President of the United States. He is the first African American to hold the office. Obama previously served as a United States Senator from Illinois, from January 2005 until he resigned following his victory in the 2008 presidential election.Born in...
was a socialist, led to an increased interest in Moore during the election. The Left Party
Left Party (Sweden)
The Left Party is a socialist and feminist political party in Sweden, from 1967 to 1990 known as the Left Party – The Communists .On welfare issues, the party opposes privatizations...
, a Swedish democratic socialist political party, officially endorsed Moore for president during a televised debate in Sweden.