[CatDancer]

Before Elizabeth Dole and Shirley Chisholm, there was Margaret Chase Smith in 1964. She didn’t actually run, but her name was put in nomination at the Republican convention. And I think there was a suffragette/saloon wrecker type trying to run for pres way back before that. I’m not sure women could even vote yet; at least that one was before my time!

[holden]

As with the NAACP, which is really the NAA(L)CP. Non liberals are rarely accorded an acknowledgement of their existence, let alone recognition of their accomplishments as presidential candidates.

HF