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Presidential Hopeful a Myth Should Not Harm Candidacy By Ralph Z. Hallow THE WASHINGTON TIMES After nearly a year of archival and archaeological research, a group of 37 scientists and academics...
...none seems to have moved to New Hampshire...
...Smith winning -4 percent of the vote among registered Republican voters, with a plus or minus 4 percentagepoint margin of error...
...There were 37 Robert Smiths who came over from Cornwall in 1837,” Barone said in an interview, “but their descendants tend to be congregated in the Ohio 16th congressional district and the Missouri 6th...
...Smith...
...The findings did not disturb the political consultants at Smith 2000: Time for A Change...
...But when respondents were told that the man they had never heard of doesn’t exist, Smith’s support shot up, as voters warmed to the notion of having a nobody as president...
...No one has been found who will testify to having been in a room with him...
...Indeed, Sen...
...And several Smith-signed op-ed pieces on character and presidential leadership turn out to have been ghost-written...
...Smith, or anyone who would like to be him...
...Smith’s campaign may not be hurt by the non-existence of the candidate...
...Early polls had shown Sen...
...Meanwhile, Larry Sabato, the man with the phone at the University of Virginia, suspects that Sen...
...We’re the only campaign with a genuine exploratory committee,” said one staffer...
...Having the candidate not exist takes this strategy to the next level...
...Therefore, see MYTH, page A22...
...The Robert Smith Seminar, as the academic research team is known, will now address the issue of who really uttered the many bon mots that have been attributed to Smith...
...Smith is an announced candidate for the Republican nomination for the presidency...
...Presidential Hopeful a Myth Should Not Harm Candidacy By Ralph Z. Hallow THE WASHINGTON TIMES After nearly a year of archival and archaeological research, a group of 37 scientists and academics have determined that New Hampshire senator Robert Smith does not exist and, indeed, never existed...
...While it is true that George W. Bush does clearly exist,” said Sabato, “his candidacy has been boosted by the fact that his campaign did not exist...
...We have teams fanning out across the country looking for Sen...
...Smith’s support does seem to have been helped by the news...
...True, it is claimed that Sen...
...But Republican primary voters have long noted that they possess no direct evidence of Sen...
...Moreover, the final proof of Smith’s non-reality may have been produced by Michael Barone, editor of The Almanac of American Politics...
Vol. 4 • March 1999 • No. 27
