The other nominees appeared to benefit from the arrangement today.
Last week, all five nominees appeared individually before small church groups.
This was the first time a nominee to the Supreme Court appeared before the Committee.
Her next nominee, Judge Virginia Long, appeared before the committee voluntarily.
The same nominee can appear on the ballot two, three, four or more times.
The following nominees appeared on enough state ballots to theoretically obtain the minimum 270 electoral votes needed to win the election.
The nominees of the following parties appeared on fewer state ballots than needed to qualify for the minimum 270 electoral votes required to win the electoral college.
In California and Utah, where no presidential nominee appeared on the ballot, the voters cast 27,887 votes for the PFP.
A Federal judge said to me, after the Thomas hearings, that it might be better to go back to the pre-1939 tradition and not expect nominees to appear.
In cases in which two candidates have been nominated, a pre-election meeting would not be required, and then presumably both nominees would appear on the ballot.