Many radicals assumed that so long as Wayne Allyn Root and Bob Barr could not combine for at least 50% after several ballots, the nomination would eventually go to Mary Ruwart. This assumption was premised on the notion that the supporters of all other candidates would filter to the last “anti-conservative” standing. This was not [...]

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Wayne Allyn Root just won the vice-presidential nomination. I don’t have solid numbers here, but I will post them when I get them.
So it’s final. Barr/Root for the Libertarian Party in 2008.
UPDATE: Here are the numbers.
Root: 289
Kubby: 255
Williams: 14
NOTA: 6
h/t to Richard Winger

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Bob Barr will be the 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee. Ballot-Access News has reported full vote totals for each round of voting, with the final decisive vote being:
Bob Barr: 324
Mary Ruwart: 276
NOTA: 26
The order of elimination was:
1st Round: Jingozian eliminated (endorsing Gravel), Smith eliminated (opposing Barr)
2nd Round: Kubby eliminated (endorsing Ruwart)
3rd Round: Phillies eliminated (no [...]

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Mary Ruwart just nominated Steve Kubby for Vice-President. Her comments seemed to indicate that she thought a “radical” would balance the Bob Barr ticket very well. That as a west-coast radical, Steve Kubby would compliment Barr, an east coast reformer, quite well. Ruwart also threw a few elbows by saying that Kubby “supported liberty at [...]

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Former congresscritter Bob Barr just secured the nomination of the Libertarian Party, shortly after defeating party-activist Mary Ruwart by 8% or 48 votes.
Barr was endorsed on the 5th ballot by Wayne Root, who was hoping for the Vice-Presidential nomination, though that has yet to be voted upon.

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Following last night’s Presidential debate at the LP convention in Denver, we posted a poll for IPR readers. Over 100 people voted in this unscientific survey are here are the results…
Bob Barr – 29 votes (27%)
Steve Kubby – 27 votes (25%)
Mary Ruwart – 22 votes (21%)
Mike Gravel – 16 votes (15%)
Wayne Root – 7 [...]

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I sat in on our live chatroom during the LP debate tonight and it was interesting to see the reactions people were having. What follows is a mixture of my own impressions mixed with those of the rest of the folks in the room.
Bob Barr appeared to come out alright, no major mistakes. [...]

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Clearly some people are so strongly against Bob Barr that they will not accept him as the LP nominee under any circumstances. We heard it during the live chat tonight and someone just sent me this video, which further highlights the deep animosity…

(I don’t get the “Dob Darr” part – are delegates planning to [...]

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Chuck Baldwin, the presidential candidate of the Constitution Party, just launched his campaign officially by pulishing his full site. Although it is by no means finished, it certainly gives us a few clues about his future campaign. Most interestingly to my fellow bloggers here at Independent Political Report is that Baldwin’s site links to ours.
Amongst [...]

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