John Anderson decides about running as an independent
The planning is still in a primitive stage, the odds enormously long, the obstacles numerous and towering. Nonetheless, barring an unlikely last-second change of heart, John Anderson will announce this week that he is giving up his hopeless quest for the Republican nomination and running as an independent candidate for the White House.
Anderson knows the odds he faces. Never has an independent won election as President of the U.S. But the candidate reasons that "these are unusual times, with lots of strange currents" and that...