We reported earlier that Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr would be the sole presidential candidate on the Texas general election ballot. His campaign was the only one to turn the necessary paperwork in on time. However, the situation has become more complicated. While neither major party candidate had their papers turned in on time, and [...]

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Minnesota’s Bemidji Pioneer reports on the Independence Party U.S. Senate primary in Minnesota, where seven candidates — Kurt Anderson, Dean Barkley, Bill Dahn, Darryl Stanton, Jack Uldrich, Doug Williams, and Stephen Williams — will face off on September 9. The winner is expected to be either ex-Sen. Barkley, former party chairman Uldrich, or party convention-endorsed [...]

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Wisconsin’s La Crosse Tribune profiles the September 9 primary between Libertarians Kevin Barrett and Ben Olson III in the state’s Third U.S. House District. The newspaper says Barrett “is a former university lecturer best known for his conspiracy theories on the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, and has some very un-Libertarian ideas about health [...]

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IPR has previously reported that Sarah Palin had been involved in various ways with the Alaska Libertarian Party from 2004-2006, culminating in an endorsement from that party for her 2006 gubanatorial campaign. Well, that isn’t her only involvement in the third-party scene,apparently. Palin also recently sent a recorded video message to the Alaskan Independence Party [...]

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An online Zogby poll of 2,020 likely voters across the U.S. conducted August 29-30 (+/- 2.2%) shows Libertarian Bob Barr at five percent and independent Ralph Nader at two in a four-way race. Barr draws two percent of Democrats, four percent of Republicans, and 11 percent of independents; Nader draws one percent of Democrats, one [...]

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Controversial Libertarian congressional candidate, Kevin Barrett, will be appearing on Alex Jones’s popular Internet radio show on Labor Day, Monday, September 1. The show airs at 1:00 p.m., Eastern at prisonplanet.com.

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In his blog on the Sandusky Register website, Tom Jackson writes, “A Zogby International poll released Aug. 22 showed Libertarian Bob Barr is drawing support from 8 percent of the Ohio’s voters. (The poll placed Barack Obama at 41 percent and John McCain at 36 percent, Ralph Nader at 1 percent and “Not Sure/Other” at [...]

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Wisconsin’s Racine Journal-Times reports Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney will visit several Wisconsin cities, including Baraboo, Madison, Milwaukee, and Racine, next week.

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The Union Leader is reporting that Bob Barr’s presidential campaign is still more than 700 signatures shy of reaching the New Hampshire ballot by legitimate, non-aggressive means. Libertarian George Phillies of Worcester, Mass., qualified for New Hampshire’s ballot last month. Republican-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr needs another 557 signatures from the 2nd District and 218 from the [...]

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Kevin Barrett, vying for the Libertarian party’s Congressional candidacy in Wisconsin’s third district, has launched a somewhat unique automated calling campaign. In anticipation of the September 9th primary, his voice will be heard in 15,000 homes across the district in two distinct messages, but not in the way you would expect from a politician. The [...]

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Seeking to capitalize on the disgruntled Hillary Clinton supporter vote, John McCain has selected half-term Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. Ms. Palin is considered by some to be a “libertarian” Republican and, according to Eric Dondero’s Libertarian Republican blog, she has spoken to two Libertarian Party meetings in Alaska. Sarah Palin has [...]

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The Oakland Tribune reports this morning that “lawyers for John McCain and the state and national Republican Party on Thursday asked a federal judge in San Francisco to dismiss a lawsuit challenging the candidate’s place on California’s Nov. 4 ballot.” American Independent Party Chairman-Elect Markham Robinson “sued McCain, the GOP and California Secretary of State [...]

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The Press of Atlantic City reports New Jersey Libertarian U.S. Senate candidate Jason Scheurer has “challenged incumbent Democrat Frank Lautenberg and Republican candidate Dick Zimmer to debates.” Lautenberg and Zimmer “have no debates planned thus far.” Scheurer said, “I am calling on both Frank Lautenberg and Dick Zimmer to participate in a series of debates [...]

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The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader, “a longtime consumer rights advocate and perennial political candidate, held a news conference Thursday” at the Wyoming State Capitol in Cheyenne. The Wyoming Secretary of State’s Office “is still reviewing Nader’s nominating petitions to see if he has enough signatures to qualify for November’s general election ballot. [...]

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Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr was scheduled to address supporters in Rahway, New Jersey, Thursday evening, the Press of Atlantic City reports. Barr was slated to “appear on several national cable programs in New York” Thursday before stopping off in New Jersey.

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Pennsylvania’s Oil City Derrick reports that James Fryman will seek the Fifth District U.S. House seat in that state as a Libertarian. Fryman “said he chose to run ‘to give voters an alternative to the same old Republican and Democratic representation they have had.’”

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The Village Voice reports on its website that Rep. Charles Rangel of New York will be challenged by Craig Schley, “a former Rangel intern who has never run for any elected office.” Schley, “an activist and former male model, found 5,580 people in the last month who want Rangel out of office and were willing [...]

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Antiwar activist Cindy Sheehan, running as an independent for Congress in California’s Eighth District against House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, has endorsed Green Cynthia McKinney for president: In other McKinney campaign news, the Green candidate “has filed a lawsuit arguing she should be placed on Ohio’s November ballot,” the AP reports, and both McKinney and running [...]

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Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin “is scouring South Carolina this week looking for voters who are scared of Democrat Barack Obama or distrustful of Republican John McCain,” the Spartanburg Herald-Journal reports. Baldwin “has been excluded from most major national polls and has scored very low on the ones that have included his name. He’s [...]

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The Oregonian reports on its website that former Oregon state senator Walt Brown, who served as a Democrat and in 2004 was the Socialist Party USA nominee for president, has been nominated by the Pacific Green Party to run for Oregon attorney general this year. In addition to a Democratic candidate and Brown, Constitution Party [...]

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