Colorado’s Sweet 16
Here are the 16 alternative presidential tickets that will appear on Colorado’s ballot this year. In some cases, candidates are stand-ins due to age or residency issues, so the tickets may differ from the parties’ official national tickets.
Charles Jay-Dan Sallis (Boston Tea)
Chuck Baldwin-Darrell Castle (Constitution)
Cynthia McKinney-Rosa Clemente (Green)
Jonathan Allen-Jeffrey Stath (Heartquake 08)
Bob Barr-Wayne Allyn Root (Libertarian)
Thomas Stevens-Alden Link (Objectivist)
Bradford Lyttle-Abraham Bassford (Pacifist)
Gene Amondson-Howard Lydick (Prohibition)
Gloria LaRiva-Robert Moses (Socialism)
Brian Moore-Stewart Alexander (Socialist)
James Harris-Alyson Kennedy (Socialist Workers)
Alan Keyes-Brian Rohrbough (unaffiliated)
William Koenig-[no running mate] (unaffiliated)
Elvena Lloyd-Duffie-[no running mate] (unaffiliated)
Frank McEnulty-David Mangan (unaffiliated)
Ralph Nader-Matt Gonzalez (unaffiliated)
Filed Under: Third parties, general
9 responses so far ↓
1 Mike Theodore // Jul 24, 2008 at 4:51 am
What’d I get you thinking?
I wish my state could have this much, I might just have to move out here before my first chance to vote.
My mom just heard of this Koenig fellow, and is head over heels over some things he said. I’ll have to look into him.
2 Peter Orvetti // Jul 24, 2008 at 5:14 am
Koenig’s site is http://william2008.com/
3 Mike Theodore // Jul 24, 2008 at 5:19 am
Watching Titanic and reading the biblical ramblings of one of his supporters. I’ll poke around it and make sure my mom isn’t praising a sane looking Milnes.
4 RedPhillips // Jul 24, 2008 at 7:57 am
Heartquake 08?
The three socialist parties ought to consider getting their act together.
5 svf // Jul 24, 2008 at 8:14 am
The three socialist parties ought to consider getting their act together.
So should the three (or four, depending how you look at it) libertarian parties…
6 inDglass // Jul 24, 2008 at 8:57 am
I bet that if the other 49 states weren’t such jerks about ballot access Colorado wouldn’t get ganged up on like this.
7 darolew // Jul 24, 2008 at 12:38 pm
“So should the three (or four, depending how you look at it) libertarian parties…”
Or only one, if you have high standards like certain personalities we should know.
“The three socialist parties ought to consider getting their act together.”
While there’s only three of them on the Colorado ballot, there are actually many more socialist parties.
The three listed are the Party for Socialism and Liberation, the Socialist Party USA, and the Socialist Workers Party. Also in existence, there’s the Peace and Freedom Party, the Socialist Equality Party, the Workers World Party, the Communist Party USA, the Democratic Socialists of America, the Freedom Road Socialist Organization, the Revolutionary Communist Party USA, the Social Democracy of America, Socialist Action, Socialist Alternative, the Socialist Labor Party of America, the Workers Party USA, and the World Socialist Party of the United States.
By my count, that’s sixteen active socialist parties in the United States. Many of them don’t run candidates (at least anymore), but all of them are at least as significant as the Boston Tea Party, and so I think it’s fair to count them.
While certainly humorous, I think continual schisms over small differences has not worked out particularly well for the far-left. This might serve as an interesting lesson that other ideologies can learn from (just sayin’).
8 ronaldkanehardy // Jul 24, 2008 at 3:29 pm
I’m disappointed that the Vampire isn’t on the ballot in Colorado.
9 Peter Orvetti // Jul 24, 2008 at 4:02 pm
I think he would have had to file during daylight hours, making it difficult.
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