Presidential campaigns crazier than Donald Trump’s – Donald Trump‘s campaign for president has been dismissed as a joke. Yet, even as his comments grew more outlandish (for instance, dismissing former prisoner of war John McCain by saying “I like people who don’t get captured”), his popularity seems to have solidified.
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Now as the primary season begins in earnest, he remains in the lead in the Republican polls. Whatever happens over the course of the election, Trump will be remembered as one of the key forces in the 2016 run for the presidency.
But Trump isn’t the first wild man to mount a serious campaign for the White House. American history is scattered with outsiders and underdogs who made an attempt to become either president or vice president.
Any election brings out its share of demagogues and weirdoes. Most are punchlines and also-rans, playing little part in the national discussion. Sometimes, however, people who in other circumstances would be considered joke contenders push themselves to the center of political discussion. Some of these are worth remembering. Others are better off forgotten. But all of them made their stamp on the nation’s politics. Here is a list of 10 people who gathered hundreds of thousands (and in some cases, millions) of votes, despite being outsiders, cranks, racists, prisoners, invalids or plain outright kooks.
10. Lyndon LaRouche
Lyndon LaRouche is the all-time poster child for crazy presidential campaigns. He officially ran for president every four years from 1976 to 2004.
Unlike most of the other people on this list, LaRouche never generated broad support or contributed to the overall national conversation. But his persistence and the mounting strangeness of his campaigns (including a run in 1992 when he was spending time in prison for fraud) gave him a kind of prominence. For most of his career, he existed as a punchline, but a list of crazy presidential contenders wouldn’t be complete without him.
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