Wikipedia:Articles for deletion/Robert Max Ross (2nd nomination)


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The result was no consensus. Ritchie333 (talk) (cont)  16:58, 28 August 2018 (UTC)

Robert Max Ross
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See Articles for deletion/Robert Max Ross. As the previous deletion discussion noted, he was a repeatedly unsuccessful politician. Robert McClenon (talk) 01:41, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Keep. The article for Robert Max Ross was created due to the fact that his name continued to show up in news searches while this author was researching the election of Otto Passman. The article was written to serve as a reference for fellow researchers who are researching the resurgence of the Republican party across the deep south and more specifically, in Louisiana. This author agrees with Robert McClenon in that Ross' defeats do not meet the requirement of notoriety, nor does the fact that he was an unsuccessful perennial candidate. This article's relevance and ultimate purpose is to provide a record of Ross' public involvement as a candidate on the forefront of the shift in support for the Republican movement at a time when it was virtually non-existent. Following the election of 1876, Republicans did not win one statewide election in Louisiana until the election of Dave Treen in 1979, a span of more than 100 years (Political party strength in Louisiana.) As a candidate against Dave Treen in 1972 and again in 1983, Ross has a unique distinction in that he is a candidate receiving much attention and press, in the quest for the first Republican victory in more than a century, and in the 1983 election, Ross was of particular concern in that his candidacy further complicated Treen's re-election due to the new jungle primary, an election Treen did ultimately lose. Additionally, Ross holds distinction for being the only other candidate other than Treen to have participated in a Republican closed primary in a Louisiana gubernatorial election. Prior to the Treen and Ross candidacies, Louisiana was essentially a one party state, with elections being solely decided by Democratic Primaries. Future elections would be determined by the jungle primary system. Because there were no Republican candidates in virtually any elections in Lousiana with the exception of Eisenhower on the national ticket and later Goldwater in 1964, voters were registered almost solely as Democrats in the state. In 1960, less than 1% of Louisiana voters were registered Republicans, while 98.6% were registered Democrats. By 1972, when the Republican candidate Ross first qualified to run for statewide office, the number of Republicans had only risen to 2.8% of the electorate. By 1986, which was the last year that Ross ran for statewide office, Republican registration had risen to 13.6%, bolstered in part by the election of Ronald Reagan. As of August 1, 2018, Republican registration has risen to just over 30%. The first Republican elected to the Louisiana State Senate during the 20th century did not occur until the election of Edwards Barham in the 1975 cycle. This same cycle, Ross was also a Republican candidate in an adjacent Senate district at a time when Republican candidates across Louisiana were truly almost non-existent. In conclusion, this article should be published not because Ross was a perennial candidate, nor just because qualified for numerous election, but because he was an early and active participant in developing a two party system in Louisiana, and was an early and active participant in the pursuit of the Republican party movement in Louisiana. I was not familiar with Ross until I researched his candidacies as a result of seeing his name continually show up. A search for "Robert+Max+Ross" in Louisiana newspapers returns more than 66 press references and a search of Louisiana newspapers for just "Robert+Ross" with "Republican" returns 142 results spanning 1952-1990. Ross was never a candidate who qualified because he believed he could win, but rather he was a candidate because he wished to build the Republican party platform in Louisiana at a time when it did not exist. Startbosshogg (talk) 06:20, 13 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Too long, didn't read. Robert McClenon (talk) 15:59, 13 August 2018 (UTC)


 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Louisiana-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Note: This discussion has been included in the list of Politics-related deletion discussions. Coolabahapple (talk) 14:00, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

 Relisted to generate a more thorough discussion and clearer consensus.
 * Keep passes WP:BASIC and borderline WP:GNG.--TM 14:27, 14 August 2018 (UTC)

Please add new comments below this notice. Thanks,  Sandstein   19:26, 20 August 2018 (UTC)
 * Delete A continuously unsuccessful candidate - all coverage of him is relevant to his failed candidacies. Fails WP:NPOL and WP:GNG. SportingFlyer  talk  07:48, 28 August 2018 (UTC)


 * The above discussion is preserved as an archive of the debate. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made on the appropriate discussion page (such as the article's talk page or in a deletion review). No further edits should be made to this page.