Prior Art
Shirley Chisholm's Wikipedia entry, which mentions her 1972 campaign. Representative Chisholm accumulated 152 delegates. Barbara Lee, the only member of the House to vote correctly on the 2001 Authorization for Use of Military Force Against Terrorists (AUMF), was one of Rep. Chisholm's volunteers in the 1972 campaign.
Jesse Jackson's Wikipedia entry for his 1984 and 1988 campaigns, (3.5 million votes, winning five primaries, including Michigan, and 6.9 million votes, winning eleven primaries, respectively)
We echo BlackProf's shout out to Professor Overton, whose hard work in Iowa (going door-to-door in freezing temperatures, reaching out to prospective caucus-goers) paid serious dividends.
Senator Obama isn't our candidate, though we'd like to know his position on Rice vs. Cayetano, whether allowing only Hawaiians to vote in Office of Hawaiian Affairs elections violates the 14th or 15th amendment, and on the Rehnquist line of cases (Oliphant, Lara, Duro), and on PL280, and on the Cobell v Babbit, Norton, Kempthorne litigation and on ...
