The Pro-Life Candidate

Single issue candidates are rarely successful and this one will be no different:

Most aspiring politicians don't want to be tagged as a one-issue candidate. But an Idaho gubernatorial hopeful doesn't mind. In fact, he is promoting it.

The organic strawberry and peapod farmer is not advocating for higher farm subsidies or rural issues. He is focused solely on abortion. And to ensure no one is confused about this, the Constitution Party candidate legally changed his name last week to reflect his view.

Marvin Pro-Life Richardson is now simply Pro-Life.

Pro-Life said in an interview with CNN that he has no chance of winning in November. But he added that is not his goal.

"I know someday, somebody is going to be going into a voting booth and praying about having a crisis pregnancy she doesn't want to have and considering an abortion," he said. "And on that day she is voting, she will see as a sign from God, Pro-Life on the ballot and say, 'I am saving my baby.'"

That someday for Pro-Life won't be on November 7 when Idaho voters elect a new governor. The Idaho secretary of state's office denied Richardson's request to have his new name printed on the ballot.

"Ballots are already printed and the absentee ballots are already in the mail and they are going to military and other people around the country," Chief Deputy Secretary of State Tim Hurst told CNN.

Good thing he doesn't grow spinach or he'd have to come up with a different name.