Chuck Baldwin’s campaign Web site was just launched in full. It can be found at:
www.baldwin2008.com
I’ll have more on that later.

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We’ve just added a chatroom to the homepage of Independent Political Report.
We’re going to leave this room active tonight for the debate and then through the nomination fight tomorrow. That way people can discuss in real-time while watching on C-SPAN. Or even from the convention itself, for any of the folks there [...]

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So far, according to the Barr campaign’s website, the following candidate have qualified for the debate on C-SPAN tonight…. Bob Barr, Mike Gravel, Michael Jingozian, Steve Kubby, George Phillies, Wayne Allyn Root, and Mary Ruwart.
The following eight candidates have also received enough delegate tokens (30) for a nominating speech tomorrow: Bob Barr, Mike [...]

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Jake Porter has been elected as an alternate regional representative to the LNC. He has ended his quest for an at-large seat in order to support the candidacy of Susan Hogarth.

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Mary Ruwart spoke today at 12:30 p.m., local time. After the speech, several people wearing buttons for other candidates — Christine Smith, Root, and Barr — came to Mary’s booth and said they had been converted. They took off their old buttons and replaced them with Mary stickers. One woman was moved to tears and [...]

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Doug Stanhope is in Denver for the LP convention.
“Where’s Robert Milnes?” he asked.
Apparently, Milnes had sent out a request for donations to help him get to Denver. Stanhope responded and asked Milnes what it would take to get him to Denver. He asked Milnes to send the reply to an alternate e-mail address, but Milnes [...]

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After failing to receive enough tokens to enter tonight’s debate, Daniel Imperato publicly endorsed Bob Barr. Barr accepted.
If Barr had attended last night’s “unofficial and all-inclusive” debate, he would have known that Imperato claims to have been in business with the bin-Laden family. He also claims to know George W. Bush very well. When questioned [...]

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Unofficial numbers and rankings:

Mary Ruwart (94)
Wayne Allyn Root (93)
Bob Barr (92)
Mike Gravel
George Phillies
Steve Kubby
Mike Jingozian

Earlier, IPR reported that six candidates will participate in tonight’s debate. The word on the floor is that there will be seven. Mike Jingozian reportedly also got enough tokens.
It is also said that Ruwart’s and Barr’s numbers would have been greater, [...]

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According to the C-SPAN website, there are six candidates who will participate in tonight’s Presidential debate to be televised at 9pm Eastern. It doesn’t name them by name, but it’s probably safe to assume it’s Barr, Ruwart, Phillies, Kubby, Root, and Gravel.
I don’t know what the rules are on the tokens or if it’s [...]

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Just got word that former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel will be participating in the official televised debate. Brian Hamel, the Gravel campaign’s official blogger reported that Skyler McKinley told him the Gravel campaign has the needed tokens in hand to secure a spot in the debate, which will be broadcast on C-SPAN tonight at [...]

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I just heard from a friend of mine who stresses that he wishes to remain anonymous. He’s attending the convention as a delegate and told me about a conversation he had with a Barr supporter (late) last night over some drinks.
Apparently, the Barr supporter wanted to convince my friend to leave his candidate of [...]

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The rap on George Phillies is that he’s a poor speaker. Perhaps he was at one point, but few people in Denver who’ve seen him in action are likely to agree.
Phillies received lots of applause and laughter at his jokes last night. His wit is probably unmatched by the field of candidates.
When asked how he [...]

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Several delegates have said they’ve been pleasantly surprised with Steve Kubby’s performance at the convention.
“He looks healthy, and he has a lot of enthusiasm,” said one delegate.
Steve Kubby has been one of the top performers, by most delegates’ accounts, at both the Libertarians for Justice forum and the “unofficial, all-inclusive” debate.
“If he could have come [...]

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Many libertarians have theorized that Bob Barr may be able to pick up the delegates of Wayne Allyn Root and Mike Gravel on subsequent ballots — Root, because of their shared Republican backgrounds; and Gravel due to their shared “celebrity” status. Barr and Root delegates may yet combine, but Gravel supporters are among the most [...]

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Mike Gravel has a fairly large entourage of leftists who followed him into the Libertarian Party and managed to get credentialed as delegates. Not large enough to make a serious run at the nomination, at least not on the first ballot, but enough diehards to give him the loudest applause at multi-candidate events. However, tonight [...]

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