24 January—Yesterday was a good day for listening to music. Any music. Wherever you could get it. Because who wanted to listen to special reports about—and especially from—the New Hampshire primary all day long? It’s not beyond belief that all the reporters and correspondents (as if there’s a practical difference) and their production teams from all over the country and world outnumbered the sparsely populated Granite State’s residents for the over-hyped primary occasion.

So there were no primary surprises. Among Democrats, who cares? Among Republicans, GOP voters and whoever else was able to do the dirty in the open primary once again showed how gullible or just plain stupid they are. And Donald Trump was his usual boorish, graceless, vulgar, tasteless, asinine, embarrassingly nasty self. That’s obviously what works for him, so who are we to knock it? But the hordes of seriously benighted devotees who fall for Trump’s ultimate con game don’t bode well for the country.

And that naturally takes us to the score of candidates in the New Hampshire primary whom very few people even know about and none care about. Kind of like the loonies who enjoy running in British elections. They call it standing for office over there because of the way they campaign. Think Tony Blair and Boris Johnson, among others.

Here, then, are some of the ultra-low vote-getters in the Granite State presidential primary, with names as they appeared on the ballot:

President Boddie, Democrat, 103 votes;
John Vail, Democrat, 503 votes;
Donald Picard, Democrat, 287 votes;
Gabriel Cornejo, Democrat, 63 votes;
Terrisa Bukovinac, Democrat, 63 votes;
Armando Perez-Serrato, Democrat, 52 votes;
Franki Lozada, Democrat, 51 votes;
Star Locke, Democrat, 51 votes;
Richard Rist, Democrat, 34 votes;
Eban Cambridge, Democrat, 29 votes;
Mark Greenstein, Democrat, 208 votes;
Paperboy Prince, Democrat, 240 votes;

Rachel Swift, Republican, 92 votes;
Scott Ayers, Republican, 79 votes;
Darius Mitchell, Republican, 66 votes;
Peter Jedick, Republican, 28 votes;
Perry Johnson, Republican, 24 votes;
David Stuckenberg, Republican, 23 votes;
Hirsh Singh, Republican, 10 votes;
John Castro, Republican, 8 votes;
Scott Merrell, Republican, 8 votes;
Samuel Sloan, Republican, 5 votes;
Glenn McPeters, Republican, 44 votes;
Donald Kjornes, Republican, 18 votes;

Vermin Supreme, Libertarian (on Democrat ballot), 665 votes.

Many of these unsung, unappreciated presidential candidates are in fact regulars on ballots in New Hampshire, California (of course), and other states. Some have even been candidates in Connecticut, where the whores of Hartford make it particularly and unfairly difficult for most people to get on ballots.

It’s disappointing there was only a single Libertarian in the field. And Vermin ran as a Democrat. Of course. Must have something to do with his name . . .