In a message to its members, the Modern Whig Party is urging voters to contact their representatives and add their voices to the debate. This comes after numerous emails from concerned members were sent to the movement’s leadership. Most of these emails demanded a stance and viable proposals to solve the dire short-term failures of [...]

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The Green Party’s candidate for Congress in Pennsylvania’s 14th district, Titus North, recently aired an anti-bailout radio advertisement in his district. You can listen to it below.

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To find out, visit this site. Many of these congresspeople face non-corporate challengers, and this issue may well have an impact in November. With Green, Libertarian, Constitution and many independent candidates the only competition some of these congresspeople will face in November, these “yes” votes may well bring new voters to cast the first third [...]

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If you haven’t already, make sure that you have registered to vote in the November election. You can find out your state deadlines for registering here. Most are in October, some as early as October 4th. You can register to vote here.

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Reason reports that Libertarian VP nominee Wayne Allyn Root will be releasing a new book in April: The Conscience of a Libertarian… is modeled after Root’s hero Barry Goldwater and Goldwater’s all-time best-selling conservative book The Conscience of a Conservative. Root said of his new book, “The Conscience of a Libertarian will honor the ideals [...]

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Neil Kiernan Stephenson, Libertarian candidate for Congress in Michigan’s 10th district will be attending the event “Politics with a Pulse” today in Port Huron. The details are below. http://www.nks2008.com St. Clair County Community College and the Times Herald will sponsor Politics with a Pulse from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday, Sept. 29, at Studio 1219, [...]

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The following is a brief missive in its entirety from independent congressional candidate Cindy Sheehan on the failure of the financial industry bailout in House today: As of this writing, the corporate welfare plan was rejected by the House of Reps. It is a bad bill, and any of the amendments were only put there [...]

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This is the second post in the “Let’s look at the issues” series. In it, major issues and the major candidates’, being those who are on enough ballots to win the presidential election, positions on them are examined. The first one, on the War on Terror, can be read here. Today’s topic is energy. The [...]

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In a video posted to YouTube, representatives of the Democratic, Republican, Libertarian and Green parties address the Wall Street “crisis”. H/T to On The Wilder Side.

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In an open letter to the National Organization of Women the Green Party’s Women’s Caucus calls on NOW to support the McKinney/Clemente ticket. In part the letter says Cynthia McKinney has been a steadfast supporter of full reproductive rights for women throughout her legislative career, including opposition to ‘abstinence only’ sex education, funding for contraception [...]

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In a comment at Ballot Access News, the chair of the Libertarian Party of Louisiana explains why they missed the deadline to put Bob Barr on the ballot. Louisiana has one of the easiest ballot access requirements among all states, with no need to get signatures from voters – just a slate of electors to [...]

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In a press release, independent candidate for Pennsylvania’s 16th District’s House seat John Murphy blasted everything from Ronald Reagan to the Taft-Hartley law. His grievances, he said, were caused by “the same 1,500 corporations” controlling the Republicans and Democrats. The rest of the press release follows: Murphy went on to say that both presidential candidates [...]

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Notwithstanding Shakespeare’s admonition, “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” Julius Caesar (I, ii, 140-141) Robert Phoenix has charted what the stars hold for Green Party Presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney. Cynthia McKinney is a Pisces Sun, born March, 17th, 1955 (no time given). One of the [...]

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From the Miller Politics interview with Scotty Boman, the 2008 Libertarian candidate for Michigan US Senate. Question: You say you are “running to further the Ron Paul/Libertarian ideals of Peace, Liberty, and Prosperity.” Recently the Libertarian presidential candidate, Bob Barr, has had a falling out with Rep. Paul and Paul has now endorsed Chuck Baldwin [...]

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The Real News Network is an online news organization that was founded by one of Canada’s most respected journalists, Paul Jay. Other respected public figures like Noami Klein and Gore Vidal have supported it since its inception. It is a completely viewer-supported venture and aims to cover important issues that the mainstream cable networks have [...]

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In a September 24th article, the San Jose Mercury News covered Cindy Sheehan‘s independent challenge to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. Sheehan and Pelosi are running in San Francisco. The full article can be read here, and an excerpt can be read below: Anti-war activist faces long odds to unseat Pelosi By ERICA WERNER Associated Press [...]

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Trevor Lyman, the man who organized the Ron Paul moneybombs, is trying to organize a debate for all of the presidential candidates who will appear on enough ballots to win. Ralph Nader, Chuck Baldwin, Bob Barr, Cynthia McKinney, Barack Obama, and John McCain will all be invited. However, it is not guaranteed that the debate [...]

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An online Zogby poll of 2,102 likely voters nationwide (+/- 2.2%) shows Libertarian Bob Barr at 3.7% in the presidential race, with independent Ralph Nader at 1.0% and Green Cynthia McKinney at 0.6%. Barack Obama is at 46.4% to John McCain’s 43.4%. The five-way survey did not include Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin or other [...]

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From Gallup.com: “Americans divide evenly in a recent Gallup Poll on whether the two major political parties are adequately representing the public, or whether a third party is needed. That represents a shift from 2007, when a majority said the Democrats and Republicans were doing ‘such a poor job that a third major party is [...]

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