Senator Bob Smith, who was briefly considered a contender for the presidential nomination of the Constitution Party, has some nice things to say about Chuck Baldwin. I am not going to officially endorse anyone but of course I admire Chuck Baldwin. He is a great patriot and an outstanding conservative leader. He is a man [...]

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Earlier today I noted that the message boards that the Alan Keyes campaign was using had gone down and were not accessible, and had been offline for a couple of days. As it turns out, there’s good reason for this and it’s not that they forgot to pay the bill. Apparently, their webhosting provider caught [...]

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Max Riekse, who ran for (and lost) the presidential and vice-presidential nominations of the Constitution Party, has now decided to join the New American Independent Party and has been selected as one of that party’s regional vice-presidential candidates. Riekse, as we reported here, was highly critical of the Constitution Party after failing to attain either [...]

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The Independent American Party of Nevada, the affilliate of the Constitution Party in that state, has experienced exponential growth, in terms of registrations and vote totals, over the past four years. Nevada’s secretary of state just recently posted voter registration numbers for the month of April. The IAP-NV gained 780 registered voters and the party [...]

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Ron Paul and Chuck Baldwin will be addressing the John Birch Society at it’s 50th Anniversary Celebration in Appleton, Wisconsin. Also attending will be Aaron Zelman, Larry Pratt, Oklahoma State Senator Randy Brogdon, Arizona State Senator Karen Johnson, and Utah Representative Stephen Sandstrom–all of whom are friendly towards the Constitution Party.

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In a press release issued today by the Cynthia McKinney campaign, Press Secretary John Judge said that the former Congresswoman from Georgia has an outright majority of 267 of the 550 allocated delegates.

The full text of the press release is below the fold.

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The Barr for President campaign’s website reports that they have raised $201,279 thus far. This is fairly impressive as they were showing only around $185,000 when I looked earlier in the day. It seems that funds are finally starting to roll in at a significant rate. Helping to fuel the burst of fundraising is probably [...]

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Brought to IPR’s attention by our own Trent Hill, Cato’s @ Liberty blog posted a story detailing Bob Barr’s record on trade back on May 14. “Is Bob Barr a libertarian?” the article asks. “Certainly not on trade.” This does not appear to be a case of a libertarian’s opposition to “free trade” agreements being [...]

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Public Policy Polling has released their latest telephone poll of North Carolina voters today, including Bob Barr against both Clinton/McCain and Obama/McCain matchups, and Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger against his major-party opponents. Some interesting tidbits from the cross-tabulated data:
Barr gains more support from Democrats than Republicans in an Obama/McCain matchup, but loses 3% [...]

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In a pair of press releases issued today, Libertarian presidential hopeful Bob Barr condemns a plan to subsidize insurance for natural-disaster prone areas and sticks up for former White House spokesman Scott McClellan in calling for an accountable executive branch. Both press releases appear in their entirety below. Bob Barr Criticizes Plan to Bail Out [...]

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John Murphy, an independent for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 16th district, has issued a statement condeming the 2008 farm bill, which he says “gives factory farms the elevator” while “family farms get the shaft.” The entire press release is printed below. ### CHESTER COUNTY, PA – Whenever the members of the two corporate parties get together [...]

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Ron Paul’s libertarian presidential run within the GOP was plagued by “white nationalist” supporters. Paul refused to return a donation from Stormfront webmaster Don Black, and a county coordinator of his Michigan campaign was later discovered to be a KKK and Christian Identity member. The pages of the American Free Press, which many consider racist [...]

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The Barr for President campaign may see a little spike in fundraising as the Libertarian Party distrubuted a letter “from the desk of Bob Barr” that lays out how Barr plans to get ballot access. In the letter, Barr sets his goal as 50 state ballot access, which Chairman Redpath estimates will cost over $300,000. [...]

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The Alan Keyes for President campaign’s message board appears to have a “database error” and has been unavailable for at least the last day or so. This is the forum that several dozen Keyes supporters seemed to be using to organize his independent candidacy. Here is the URL for the forum: http://discuss.americasrevival.com It’s not clear [...]

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New York Times reporter Julie Bosman wrote an article for yesterday’s Sunday edition that summarized the LP convention, Ron Paul movement, and the Barr campaign’s possible role of a “spoiler” in the upcoming election. She paints a picture of a Libertarian voting bloc that is preparing to influence the election in a big way. Bosman [...]

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The respective presidential nominees of the Libertarian and Constitution parties, Bob Barr and Chuck Baldwin, both favor elimination of the IRS and the income tax. Both think that this could be accomplished by repealing the 16th amendment — an assertion some experts dispute. But they differ on how the federal government should be funded in [...]

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