I heard Obama say you can’t believe things you read on the internet.
LOL. Yes, the Obama campaign’s response to this story (as aired on Brit Hume’s show last night) was that “Obama ran as a Democrat in 1996 and don’t believe all the trash on the net.”
However, the New Party was a fusion party and ran their candidates mainly as Democrats.
Proof:
“Most of the local elections in which the New Party is running are non-partisan-so party registration doesn’t matter. In other races, we either run New Party members inside the major-party primary, or cross-endorse the best major-party candidate on our own ballot line.”
Source:
http://web.archive.org/web/19980203212527/www.newparty.org/qanda.html