Americans for Prosperity will be holding a major summit called “Defending the American Dream” next week in Washington. I’ve been offered a last minute invite by some local AFP folks here and I think I’m going to take them up on it.
This will likely include blogger press credentials and potentially some access [...]

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IPR previously reported that Ralph Nader would be an option on the ballot for 85.2% of voters and Cynthia McKinney will be on the ballot before 70.5% of voters. Now, because of a series of updates at Ballot Access News, we can bring you a more complete picture of national ballot access. These [...]

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In today’s Charleston Gazette, former Senator and Libertarian presidential candidate Mike Gravel wrote an Op-Ed piece supporting a gubernatorial candidate. That candidate is Jesse Johnson, of the Mountain Party, the West Virginia affiliate of the Green Party. Gravel had previously endorsed Johnson and campaigned for him. You can read the article here.
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Michigan Libertarian for U.S. Senate Scotty Boman has produced a YouTube video touting his two decades worth of libertarian activism. Included in the video are clips of Mr. Boman from TV shows stretching back to the 80’s, old letters to the editor and editorials, and more recent campaign activity.

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Green Party’s Gordon Clark to face Democratic Chris Van Hollen and
Republican Steve Hudson in Maryland 8th District Congressional
candidates’ debate, Oct. 2
Please note: Gordon Clark will be available to answer questions from
the media prior to the forum from 5:30 to 6:30, and again following
the forum at 8:30. Media contact for the Clark campaign is David
Gaines (703/338-3459 [...]

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The founder and executive director of Open Debates – a sponsor of Thirdpartyticket.com’s debate – and author of “No Debate: How the Republican and Democratic Parties Secretly Control the Presidential Debates” was interviewed by Amy Goodman on Democracy Now! today. You can watch the interview, or read the transcript, at Democracy Now!’s website.

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I will be liveblogging tonight’s vice presidential debate at http://pjoelection.blogspot.com/. While it’s obviously a major party event, I’ll try to keep up with Boston Tea Party vice presidential nominee Tom Knapp’s updates from outside as well.

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A Suffolk University/WSVN-7News Miami poll on the presidential race in Florida included this question: “There are 14 candidates for president on the Florida ballot. Of these, the major five candidates are: Republican John McCain, Democrat Barack Obama, Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Party Cynthia McKinney, and Ecology Party Ralph Nader. At this point, for [...]

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Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr will speak at Indiana’s Notre Dame University on Friday, the AP reports. The event, “which is being sponsored by the College Libertarians of Notre Dame, is open only to Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College students and staff members. The speech begins at 3 p.m. in Washington Hall. [...]

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The AP reports Minnesota Independence Party U.S. Senate candidate Dean Barkley is today launching two radio ads featuring former governor Jesse Ventura. Ventura “asks voters to send another ‘wake-up’ call by picking Barkley,” and “also touts Barkley’s record of accomplishment” during his brief service in the Senate in 2002. The ads can be [...]

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A story to run in Friday’s edition of the National Catholic Reporter examines the role of third parties in U.S. politics. The piece offers a brief history of major third party movements, and basically endorses Instant Runoff Voting.

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A blog entry on the Los Angeles Times website says, “We probably won’t get to know much about Wayne Root and Matt Gonzalez during tonight’s vice presidential debate in St. Louis. That’s because the vice presidential running mates of Libertarian Bob Barr and contrarian Ralph Nader are prohibited. Too risky for the two [...]

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WCAX.com reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will campaign in Vermont this weekend, with stops in Waitsfield and at the University of Vermont.
In other Nader news, Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Mike Rotkin says the “essence of the Nader campaign for president, as is the case with any third party campaign in the U.S., is the [...]

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Cato Institute Chairman William Niskanen, a fine gentleman who had the (much larger) office three doors down from mine during my brief time at Cato, and who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, makes “A Case For A Different Libertarian Party” in the latest Cato Policy Report.
Niskanen argues, “The effectiveness of the [...]

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