Speaking at today’s Rally for the Republic, former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura said he would run for president in 2012 if he saw “action, not words” from the revolutionaries in attendance. “We’ll give them a race they’ll never forget,” he said.
After receiving several huge ovations, Ventura came back to the stage to put in a [...]

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Amy Goodman, the host of Democracy Now!, and two producers of the show were arrested recently at the Republican Convention in St. Paul. Goodman has featured third party candidates and causes, such as Ralph Nader and Mike Gravel’s call for a new 9/11 investigation, on her independent news program.
Goodman approached a group of riot [...]

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“It is time for candidates to debate the most pressing issues affecting this nation and not focus on ‘Swift Boat’ propoganda,” says Herbert Hoffman, independent candidate for US Senate. The statement comes in response to a series of attack ads on the incumbent, Susan Collins, and her Democratic challenger, Tom Allen.
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“Five years after the Free State Project picked New Hampshire as its home base and began appealing for 20,000 people to move to the state, only a fraction have made the move,” the AP reports. Activists say “only 558 people moved to New Hampshire, though more than 8,500 committed to do so. … [...]

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Maverick Montana Republican U.S. Senate candidate Bob Kelleher, a former Green, has spent his political career advocating “a peculiar political passion: an American parliament,” the Missoulian reports. He says “dozens of countries, including some former Soviet bloc nations, boast higher standards of living for their people, more progressive social policies and a government unburdened [...]

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The Wisconsin State Journal, previewing independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader’s visit to the state this week, says Nader “says he’s running for president again to highlight what he calls a ‘corporate state’ in which government works on behalf of businesses at the expense of citizens.” In a telephone interview, Nader said “corporations and their [...]

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Campaigns and Elections has a 2,600-word piece on Libertarian Bob Barr’s run for the presidency, headlined “See Bob Run: Barr Is Damned Serious About Becoming President.” Writer Doug Daniels says despite the “campaign’s sloppiness in certain areas, there’s also, out of both necessity and good intention, a genuine eagerness to grant access to the [...]

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Old, Grizzled Third Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain

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