Ultimately, Roemer's lack of name recognition was the campaign's problem, not American Elect's, Wachtel said.
Gabriel Mizrachi, 17, and a volunteer with the Gingrich campaign, said he likes Buddy Roemer.
Louisianans have not forgotten the case of Buddy Roemer, the state's last strongly reform-minded governor.
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The others: Buddy Roemer (D) in 1987, Dave Treen (R) in 1979, and Edwin Edwards (D) in 1971.
Mr Roemer shares his populist Eurosceptic and pro-welfare ideas with Mr Wilders, though his campaigning is more sophisticated.
Even if Mr Roemer ends up winning the election, he may lose the political fight of building a coalition.
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Mr Roemer and the VVD leader, Mark Rutte, who is also caretaker prime minister, have yet to take part in a debate.
Mr Roemer could not get along with the legislature, which ran circles around him, and he finished third in his 1991 re-election bid.
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In practice, Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer and controversial Freedom Party front man Geert Wilders share two critical positions: both are eurosceptic, both pro-welfare.
Socialist Party leader Emile Roemer said he too was not prepared to support the attempt to bring the budget deficit below 3% by 2013.
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Without explaining how he would find the money, Mr Roemer promises both to safeguard the welfare state and to share the burden of paying for it more equally.
Roemer, a former congressman from Indiana, said there would be "new revelations" on that "theme" and the lack of cooperation between the FBI and CIA at this week's hearings.
Wachtel said it was impossible to speculate about a candidate like New York Mayor Bloomberg or former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman (who, like Roemer, ran for the 2012 GOP nomination).
Gephardt said he would support an effort by Rep. Tim Roemer, D-Indiana, a member of the House Intelligence Committee, to attach language to an upcoming intelligence authorization bill in the House creating the commission.
Gephardt's spokesman, Erik Smith, said the minority leader decided to sign on to Roemer's measure, rather than the McCain-Lieberman plan, because it was introduced first and would have an equal number of people from each party.
Kennedy, 52, a fiscal moderate with a law degree from the University of Virginia and an advanced degree from Oxford, served as state Secretary of the Treasury and was special counsel to former Gov. Buddy Roemer.
Roemer, then a Democratic congressman, was one of a crowded field of challengers to Edwin Edwards, the colorful, corrupt longtime governor (Edwards, now 84, was recently released from federal prison after serving 10 years for racketeering).
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Should we take Buddy Roemer seriously?
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The chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Porter Goss, R-Florida, told CNN's Wolf Blitzer on Monday he wants to see whether the independent panel proposed by Gephardt and Roemer would replace or merely supplement the investigation by the intelligence committees.
Tim Roemer, a Democratic member of the bipartisan panel known formally as the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks Upon the United States, told CNN that this week's session will likely follow up on some of the points raised by the earlier congressional probe.
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But Roemer has not disappeared.
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The commission, as envisioned by Roemer's bill "will have a broad mandate to investigate all relevant facts and circumstances relating to the attacks, " including issues surrounding intelligence, law enforcement, commercial aviation, diplomacy, immigration and border control, according to a statement from Roemer's office issued Friday.
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