Latest Bob Barr poll numbers from Zogby:

New Mexico 9%
Colorado 8%
Florida 6%
Virginia 5%
North Carolina 4%

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The Marxist-Leninist Workers World Party has announced its formal endorsement of Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney:
McKinney’s campaign is Black-led, anti-imperialist, working-class-centered and has a multinational radical base with the potential of unlimited growth.
Of course, we believe that the struggle should not be confined to the electoral arena, especially as the capitalist ruling class completely [...]

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“Barr is always accompanied by handlers whose job is to keep libertarians away from their presidential candidate so they can’t ask him questions about his Big Government positions,” says CLS of the Classically Liberal blog.
Referring to an encounter between Marc Victor, an attorney and sometimes radio host, and Bob Barr at last weekend’s Freedom Fest, [...]

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In a statement issued last night, Bob Barr encouraged his supporters to join Accountability Now PAC in the PAC’s efforts to remove from power the key enablers of the “tyrannical and lawless FISA compromise.”
BreakTheMatrix, which sponsors the PAC, hailed Barr’s supportive statements as “an action to defend our Constitution.”

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Appearing on Glenn Beck last night, Ron Paul said that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac should be allowed to fail. Unlike Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr, who says Congress should provide a “temporary line of credit” to boost the share price of the publicly traded stock — and give the Fed more “oversight” over the [...]

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Dave Brownlow, the Constitution Party’s candidate for U.S. Senate in Oregon, has issued a statement criticizing the Senate’s recent 80-16 vote to triple foreign aid to fight AIDS in Africa.
“While it is admirable for the U.S. Senate to show $48 billion worth of compassion for the people of Africa, there is a little matter of [...]

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“Wait, other people are running for president?” a headline from an article in last Thursday’s Medill Reports sarcastically asks. “You wouldn’t know it, but yes, more than a dozen candidates are hoping to be the longshot winner who will upset the favorites.”
The article makes passing reference to the Green and Libertarian parties (no talk of [...]

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Last month, IPR reported that Bob Barr received a staggering 57.69% of Google News hits for all the “major” (defined very loosely) third-party and independent candidates. This month, though Barr’s lead remains commanding, it has slipped noticeably to under 50%.
Independent Ralph Nader’s position is relatively unchanged, remaining at #2 with 35.38% vs. 34.37% last month.
In [...]

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“I was actively discouraged from my original presidential run, because GP didn’t want to counter the Democratic nominee with a white male,” says former Green presidential hopeful now running for Congress, Alan Augustson. “When I objected, it was implied that I was racist and sexist.”
“[To me, the Green Party has been useless,” Auguston continued in [...]

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Since IPR’s inception, Third-Party Watch has linked to several of our stories — usually crediting them to Austin Cassidy, whether he wrote them or not. But recently, at least one TPW author has begun copying IPR content and reposting it as his own.
Take for example: Bob Barr contradicts LP: Government ‘has to do something’ to [...]

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“In the short-term,” Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr said in a press release, “government has little choice but to provide an explicit but limited loan guarantee, thereby capping the public’s liability, now widely assumed to be without limit. At the same time, Congress must restrict the number and size of loans by Fannie Mae [...]

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Jason Gatties has announced that he will seek the office of vice-chairman of the Boston Tea Party National Committee. The election will be held in late October.
“It is my goal to help the Boston Tea Party continue to grow and eventually become what the Libertarian Party once was,” said Gatties.
Gatties has launched a new Web [...]

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The British Conservative statesman and literary figure Benjamin Disraeli is oft quoted saying, “There are three kinds of lies: lies, damned lies, and statistics.” In a column titled The Progressive Mandate at Green Party Watch, writer Nate Nelson lays out statistics that he contends shows the US electorate taking what he calls a progressive [...]

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Richard Cooper, a self-described import/export manager, writes about Georgia’s larger-than-usual role in third party politics in a piece at Ground Report:
The Green Party nominated former Representative Cynthia McKinney (Democrat-Georgia) for President of the United States. This makes for an all-Georgia alternative voice in this year’s contest as the Libertarian Party nominated former Representative Bob [...]

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