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Roseanne Barr is serious about her bid for the presidency in 2012. Seriously. No, really. She means it. She's filled out the paperwork for the Green Party and everything.
Trouble is, third-party candidates usually rely on young voters, as the Christian Science Monitor points out, yet young voters aren't likely to know who Roseanne Barr is. Or was, as they say in Hollywood.
The sitcom that made Roseanne Barr famous ran way back in the 1980s, when young voters hadn't been born yet.
"If this were someone like Chelsea Handler or even Tina Fey who is very visible right now, then it might be clearer who will pay attention to her bid," Lara Brown, political science professor at Villanova University, told the Monitor.
