Many people said they voted mistakenly for the Reform Party's Patrick Buchanan, who received 3, 411 votes, including many in heavily Democratic precincts.
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Like many local Republicans, Farrel ridicules the idea that conservative commentator Patrick Buchanan could not have carried 3, 500 real votes in this county.
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For three consecutive presidential elections, Reform Party candidate Patrick Buchanan and his conservative followers have been a persistent pain for the Republican Party.