Mar. 28, Feature - Former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel has had an unsuccessful run for the Democratic Presidential nomination. He has barely raised any money and has failed to garner much media attention, often shut out of debates.

As Senator, he played an historic role unveiling the Pentagon Papers during the Vietnam war, which was one of the factors that lead the war to wind down. But his ardent anti-war stance gave him little traction in the Democratic party this election.

So he's changed parties.

Senator Gravel is now a member of the Libertarian Party and he joined Election Unspun producer Leigh Ann Caldwell via telephone.

"I believe in peace, I believe in fairness, I believe it should represent the people and not wall street and its not doing any of these things and so I've tried to find a group that does, and I think the Libertarian Party does that much more handsomely than the Democratic Party."

"They're opposed to the war - really opposed to the war. They're opposed to going into it.. and they want to get out.."

"They've welcomed me, very enthusiastically. I can't believe the reaction. And they haven't offered me anything other than being treated equally, which was not the treatment I had with the Democrats. I was not treated fairly or equally in the debates, in fact, they were part of the conspiracy to cut me out of the debates, which started with the actions of General Electric last September. "

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