Meanwhile, Farther Down the Ballot

This week in marginal candidate news: Alan Keyes, the Republican so marginal that CNN doesn't even list him on their dedicated Republican presidential candidate election page, is still actually in the running. He, like many others, has been concentrating on Texas. He spent the last month visiting campus Republicans in Beaumont and College Station, as part of a six-week tour of the state before the March 4 primary. Just to keep track, Keyes has no delegates, and in polls is usually classified under "other," i.e. his numbers are so low as to be statistically insignificant.

Oh, and two-time presidential loser Ralph Nader managed to get himself booked on Meet The Press with Tim Russert on Sunday to announce that he will be running as an independent. Nader scraped 0.38% of the popular vote in 2004 as an independent running with the backing of the Reform Party (who had fielded Pat Buchanan in 2000, when Nader ran as a Green), and scarcely seeing off Libertarian Michael Badnarik. He claimed last year that his 2000 candidacy helped Al Gore.