The Thaddeus McCotter 2012 presidential campaign began when McCotter
filed papers on July 1, 2011, to run for the Republican Party's 2012
nomination for President of the United States. He officially announced
his candidacy the next day at a rock festival near Detroit. McCotter, a
congressman from Michigan since 2003, was first mentioned as a potential
candidate on an April 2011 episode of the Fox News show Red Eye. During
his campaign, he focused on reform of government and Wall Street.
Commentators noted that McCotter's lack of name recognition hindered his
chances; he regularly received less than one percent support in
Republican presidential preference polls. Following a last-place finish
in the Ames Straw Poll and the lack of any invitation to presidential
debates, he dropped his candidacy on September 22, 2011, and endorsed
Mitt Romney. He resigned from Congress in July 2012 amid a fraud
investigation surrounding his congressional re-election campaign.
Read more:
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thaddeus_McCotter_2012_presidential_campaign>
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Today's selected anniversaries:
1927:
Putting Pants on Philip, the first official film featuring the
comedy duo Laurel and Hardy, was released.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Putting_Pants_on_Philip>
1967:
Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first
successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur
Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christiaan_Barnard>
1979:
As per the results of a two-day referendum, the current
Constitution of Iran was adopted.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1979_Iranian_constitutional_referendum>
1990:
Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first female President of
Ireland.
<https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presidency_of_Mary_Robinson>
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Wiktionary's word of the day:
worthwhileness:
The condition or extent of being worthwhile.
<https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/worthwhileness>
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Wikiquote quote of the day:
It's extraordinary how we go through life with eyes half shut,
with dull ears, with dormant thoughts. Perhaps it's just as well; and it
may be that it is this very dullness that makes life to the incalculable
majority so supportable and so welcome. Nevertheless, there can be but
few of us who had never known one of these rare moments of awakening
when we see, hear, understand ever so much — everything — in a flash
— before we fall back again into our agreeable somnolence.
--Lord Jim
<https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Lord_Jim>
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