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Internet Picks Presidential Candidate If Ackerman Gets His Way
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It’s just after 8 a.m. on Nov. 11, and Peter Ackerman is staring at red numbers flashing on an electronic board. He sees 2,008,069.
“That’s 2 million Americans who have signed on to having another candidate on the presidential ballot,’’ he says, beaming, in the Manhattan offices of the marketing agency for Americans Elect, the group he’s backing with more than $5 million.