85 candidatos oficiales

Hace dos semanas leíamos que eran 76 las personas que habían formalizado su candidatura presidencial en la Comisión Electoral Federal (FEC). Ahora ya son 85.

(...) Perhaps the closest we get to a maybe-was-a-household-name-in-a-few-households-about-20-years-ago kind of candidate is Randall Terry, founder of Operation Rescue, an organization that sprung to prominence during the 1990s as it attempted to shut down abortion clinics across the nation. Terry filed a statement of candidacy on Jan. 18, and he's running as a Democrat.

Beyond Terry, the field thins into folks ranging from the obscure, to the virtually unknown, to the downright bizarre.

Running for president is, for example, popular among people purporting to have presidential-y monikers.

There's George Washington Williams, Rutherford Burt Hayes and Andrew Clay Hastings. Jeff Howard Taft Davis' candidacy might sow confusion over whether he's running for the presidency of the United States of America, or, the Confederacy.

Also present on this list are folks who straight-up incorporate leadership titles into their names, including Warren Roderick President Ashe, Jonathon the Impaler Sharkey and Ole Savior, as well as the arguably overqualified President Emperor Caesar.

Having trouble choosing between Tanner Cline McCumber Bush and Savannah Jewel McCumber Bush? No surprise there, since both California-based presidential candidates list themselves in their FEC filings as independents who are, respectively, the "legal son" and "legal daughter" of "John 'Jeb' Ellis Bush former governor of Florida."

Both forms also note, in script handwriting at the margins of the documents, that they've been filed by "Laura Jane McCumber Bush," the "legal wife of Jeb Bush due to the worlds largest terrorists organization plotting our assassination." (...)