President (then Senator) Barack Obama denied his connections to the Socialist "New Party' in 1996, in spite of
existing party records and even photographic evidence...
Via
Politically Defunct:
"The 'New Party' was a political party established by the Democratic Socialists of America (the DSA) to push forth the socialist principles of the DSA by focusing on winnable elections at a local level and spreading the Socialist movement upwards. The admittedly Socialist Organization experienced a moderate rise in numbers between 1995 and 1999. By 1999, however, the Socialist 'New Party' was essentially defunct after losing a supreme court challenge that ruled the organizations
"fusion" reform platform as unconstitutional."
