Another facet to all this.
The CPUSA typically runs a candidate in presidential elections. They get 2 or 3% of the vote, but they still run a candidate. In ‘08 they did not run one because the democrat party was so closely aligned with the CPUSA’s goals. So the commies endorsed baraq. And again in ‘12.
Another one of those low hanging fruit news stories that the party’s media left alone.
“No Communist, no matter how many votes he should secure in a national election, could, even if he would, become President of the present government.
When a Communist heads the government of the United States — and that day will come just as surely as the sun rises— the government will not he a capitalist government but a Soviet government, and behind this government will stand the Red army to enforce the dictatorship of the proletariat, ‘’
Sworn statement of WILLIAM Z. FOSTER
Head of the Communist Party in the United States