Their preferred nominee, John Hagelin, a physicist who previously ran twice for president on the Natural Law Party ticket, asserted that he, not Mr. Buchanan, would represent the true Reform Party in the fall.
But he is easily my preferred Best Actor nominee, for his glorious, hilarious turn in Wes Anderson's The Grand Budapest Hotel.
It is an extreme tactic, and moderate Democrats have promised that they will use it only in exceptional circumstances).In the future, presidents of both parties are likely to prefer "stealth" nominees like Ms Miers.
A different USA Today/Gallup poll, released on Monday, found that more than a third of Republicans and Republican-leaning independents still say that they are not satisfied with Romney as the nominee and would have preferred another candidate.
Women voters are overwhelmingly leaning toward Clinton, a Democrat, while men much more narrowly prefer GOP nominee Trump.
The opacity comes as public polling indicates voters are worried about the role money plays in politics and would prefer a nominee who wants to limit political spending.
Their reticence is largely focused on her politics -- 49percentt who'd prefer another nominee say they have concerns about her positions on issues, while just 22percentt cite concerns about her character.
In virtually every poll, Latino voters prefer Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton to Trump by huge margins, and many Republicans running in states with large Latino populations have attempted to distance themselves from him.
For instance, a survey taken earlier this month by Stanley Greenberg, a Democrat not aligned with any candidate, found that when asked what they preferred in their nominee, Democratic voters in New Hampshire chose electability over ideology by 53percentto40percentcent.
