Members of the John Birch Society developed an interest in a school of Austrian economists who promoted free-market ideals.

NEWYORKER: Covert Operations

Welshpool made 161 (Joe Birch 47, John Darlington 4-38), but Wem replied with 164-6 (Russell Mellings 55, Josh Gough 32no, Ernie Birch 3-33).

BBC: Wellington and Whitchurch go up

The purist conservatives were left to back the third-party candidacy of John Schmitz, a Republican congressman and a member of the John Birch Society.

NEWYORKER: Confounding Fathers

No one will accuse McCain of being a John Birch sympathizer.

CNN: Tucker Carlson: McCain's inadvisable political strategy yields collosal dividends

The GOP was split, nominating a moderate, Willis Gradison, over a former John Birch Society member who urged his fellow Republicans to sit out the election.

NPR: GOP Nervous About Trends in Special House Races