"I hope to get enough votes so that major candidates and voters say 'Holy shit how did this happen?''' Fulani said at the Kennedy School Tuesday night.

Fulani says she would use the results as "leverage to pass...[progressive programs] such as a national health care bill."

When she looks at the major Democratic candidates for president, the New Alliance Party (NAP) candidate says she sees "The Big White Five"--politicians who are entangled in a system which kills its underprivileged by ignoring their needs.

So the 41-year-old psychotherapist from New York City entered the Democratic primaries, partly at the urging of members of the Democratic Party, says Madelyn Chapman, Fulani's press secretary.

"[They] were concerned that the views of the disenfranchised would be left out, especially with the Reverend Jesse Jackson not running," Chapman says.

But Fulani was largely ignored by Democratic Party organizers in New Hampshire who refused to invite her to party debates.

Though 36 candidates ran in the New Hampshire Democratic primary, only five were officially recognized by the party and invited to all the official debates.

Fulani alleges that only rich, white males are recognized as legitimate candidates.

"The Democratic Party is a closed, PAC-controlled, men's club," she says.

Fulani says that her campaign is about gaining greater political access for average Americans.

"Ordinary people of America have to get control to make policy decisions [that affect] their own lives and those of their children," she says.

"She's for democracy and freedom. She's always been a populist in that she believes the country should be ruled by the people," says Alvin M. Foster, a Fulani supporter from Mattapan who calls himself an anarchist.

After receiving 402 votes in last month's New Hampshire Democratic primary, Fulani decided to withdraw from the remaining Democratic primaries in order to concentrate on running as an independent candidate in the fall, says Chapman.

Fulani supporters compare her short-lived

Democratic candidacy to that of Pat Buchanan--each candidate accuses a major party of ignoring a sector of its membership.