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posted by cmn32480 on Saturday October 24 2015, @08:10AM   Printer-friendly
from the he's-in-but-does-he-have-a-chance dept.

TechDirt reports

  Larry Lessig Dumps His Promise To Resign The Presidency In An Attempt To Get People To Take His Campaign Seriously

We've written a few times about Larry Lessig's somewhat wacky campaign for President, which was premised on the idea that it was a "referendum" campaign, where his entire focus would be to push Congress into putting in place serious campaign finance reform and then resigning from the Presidency. As we noted, the whole thing was a bit of a gimmick. And apparently that gimmick hasn't been working too well.

Earlier this month, Lessig noted that he was being shut out from the Democratic debates, despite being a Democrat running for President and polling roughly on par with a few of the other nobodies in the campaign. The problem is that the Democratic National Committee apparently chose to ignore the campaign and because it refused to officially "welcome" him to the campaign, pollsters aren't including him and thus he didn't have enough polling data to be invited to the debate.

[...] Late on Friday (not exactly the best time to announce anything but bad news...) Lessig announced that he's dropping the promise to resign, because while it may have gotten some attention as an initial gimmick, it was also dragging him down (including potentially keeping him out of the debates).


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @08:53AM

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday October 24 2015, @08:53AM (#253948)

    The title, as submitted, had a spelling error.
    The submission was accepted into the on-deck part of the queue as-is.
    An editor later noticed my bonehead and swapped in a t for the c.

    I believe that, if the dialog boxes on the submission page [soylentnews.org] were just a few pixels taller, the underlinings of my spellchecker would be visible in those places.
    Has anyone else found this to be bothersome when submitting?

    -- gewg_

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:16AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday October 24 2015, @09:16AM (#253954) Journal

    I'll add this to my extension.

    If you don't want to wait or use it, you can add this to a custom stylesheet:

    #storyTitle {padding: 4px !important;}

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