The party absorbed the American Independent Party, which was founded for George Wallace's 1968 presidential campaign.[citation needed] The Constitution Party claims to be the "philosophical home" of the Tea Party.[20] The Constitution Party candidate, former congressman Tom Tancredo, came in second place with 617,030 votes in the 2010 Colorado gubernatorial election with 36.4% of the vote, ahead of Republican Dan Maes with 11.1%. In 2006, Rick Jore, of the then recently disaffiliated Constitution Party of Montana, was elected to the Montana House of Representatives with 56.2% of the vote, defeating Democrat Jeanne Windham.