ABSTRACT
Recently, Newsweek magazine published the following story.
Last July, an Exeter, N.H., man named John Adams announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination in the state's First Congressional District. Adams, 61, an unemployed taxi driver who claims he was once a Massachusetts state senator, ran a do-nothing campaign. He made no speeches, issued no press releases, spent no money. "I did absolutely no campaigning," he said. "With a name like mine I didn't figure I had to."
Apparently not. Last week, Adams won the primary, defeating his closest competitor, local newspaper columnist Edward Hewson, 30, by 4,000 votes. "We never saw Mr. Adams or read anything coming from him," said Hewson's campaign manager. "We have no way to evaluate why people voted for him."
New Hampshire GOP chairman Gerald Carmen seemed less baffled. "When people went to the polls, they saw four names they didn't recognize," he explained. "I guess they picked the one that sounded familiar"
[Newsweek, September 27, 1976; p. 36; italics added].