A new poll Sunday showed the Republican ticket still capturing just 5% of the black vote despite Trump's attempts to court minorities last week.
He and the other convention avoiders are hoping for a resurgence of split-ticket voting, capturing the votes of Republicans and independents who do not support Mr. Trump.
How could anyone, particularly someone hoping to sell millions of tickets, successfully capture L'Engle's idiosyncratic vision?
Tickets are captured by the exit turnstiles to be reused by the system if they no longer have any value.
In a conference call with reporters Friday to promote Gen. Wesley K. Clark's strength in the South, Jim Hodges, a former governor, suggested that Democrats must have a candidate with Southern appeal at the top of the ticket to help capture the seats of five retiring United States senators from the South, including Mr. Edwards.
Since a plane crash last month took the life of Eduardo Campos, his successor on the Socialist Party ticket, Marina Silva, has captured support from a diverse mix of voters.
In November 1976 the Carter-Mondale ticket won the election, capturing 51 percent of the popular vote and garnering 297 electoral votes to Ford's 240.
Some had already broken with the party, in 1948, when Strom Thurmond, then the governor of South Carolina, headed a third-party, states rights' ticket, the Dixiecrats, which captured four states in the general election, the first step in the Democratic Party's eventual loss of "the Solid South".
A bitter extended exchange between two very old friends from Capitol Hill's contingent of Vietnam vets -- Secretary of State John Kerry and Senator John McCain, who briefly considered making up a presidential and vice presidential ticket in 2004 -- captured the spirit of anger and disarray that presently characterizes America's geopolitical posture.
The company wants to change the way ticketing works, to capture what is a multi-billion dollar opportunity.
