He came in third in WY. And he was within 6 votes of winning the largest SC straw poll. AND he paid his $25K to be on the ballot. And he has been endorsed by the Missouri and Nevada republican Assemblies. Hardly a fringer.
A couple of points of information:
To appear on the South Carolina primary ballot, a payment of $35,000, more than all the ballot access fees of all the other states combined, was required to be made to the state GOP.
A) Duncan Hunter made that payment.
B) Alan Keyes, because his campaign has from the beginning been a grassroots one, and not a money-driven one, did not pay what amounts to a huge poll tax.
Two separate issues, but things that all conservatives should know concerning what is happening to their electoral process.