Citing numerous contributions by American Muslims and growing discrimination, Ralph Nader challenged Obama and McCain to campaign at mosques. Posted at VoteNader.org:
Ralph Nader will be holding a news conference Friday, October 3 at 11 a.m. outside the Grand Mosque Islamic Center in Washington DC where he will challenge Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News

Washington state held a “top-two” primary on August 19, at which all voters received the same ballots. Each ballot listed all candidates, with party labels worded “Prefers (such-and-such) Party.”
The Constitution Party candidates for Secretary of State, and for Auditor, each polled over 6%. If this had been the November general election, [...]

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Posted at http://votetruth08.com
Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney is scheduled to appear on two nationally broadcast shows on National Public Radio (NPR) this month;
Wednesday, October 22
Talk of the Nation
NPR Radio, Washington, DC
2:40 pm EST
Saturday, October 25
NPR News
Weekend Edition Saturday
Scott Simon, host
8:10 am EST

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Posted at Green Party Watch:
In a press release issued today the InPDUM announced their support for the McKinney/Clemente ticket. The InPDUM came to public awareness after they challenged Barack Obama with the question, “What about the Black community Obama?”

Uhuru Movement endorses Cynthia McKinney
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Uhuru Movement Endorses McKinney/Clemente Ticket in U.S. Presidential Race
The [...]

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Controversial Wisconsin Libertarian candidate Kevin Barrett handed Ron Kind, the Congressman he is running against, a “pink slip” for voting for the Wall Street bailout. He also suggested that Kind and other members of Congress should be tried for war crimes.

3rd District Congressional Candidate Kevin Barrett blasted incumbent Ron Kind today for voting for [...]

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Posted at HometownAnnapolis.com. Read the full article there.
WASHINGTON — Libertarian Chairman Robert Johnson phoned around to his tiny party’s sympathizers late last year, after being dispatched from an August picnic to corral congressional candidates against Maryland Democrats’ near-monopoly.
He asked the potential nominees three questions: “Are you against the war in Iraq? Are you against [...]

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Democracy Now! has a joint interview with Matt Gonzalez, running mate of Independent candidate Ralph Nader, and Rosa Clemente, running mate of Cynthia McKinney of the Green Party.
Excerpt:
ROSA CLEMENTE: Well, I mean, I think both people up there last night were clear that they don’t have the majority of the [...]

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Socialist Party USA presidential candidate Brian Moore will be appearing on Fox News’s “Cavuto on Business,” Saturday at 11:20 a.m., Eastern, to discuss the financial crisis.

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Video by IPR’s Ross Levin.

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Posted at Ballot Access News:

The November 2008 Colorado ballot will list 16 presidential candidates. This is the most crowded ballot in U.S. history for president at a general election. The previous record was 14, set in 1992 in three states (Iowa, Tennessee, and Wisconsin).
This year, it appeared that 18 candidates would be on in Colorado. [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News
On October 1, the Connecticut Libertarian Party filed a federal lawsuit to get Bob Barr on the ballot. Libertarian Party of Connecticut v Bysiewicz, 3:08cv-1513. The case is assigned to Judge Janet Hall, a Clinton appointee.
The state believes that the Libertarian presidential petition was 280 signatures short, but Libertarian volunteers have [...]

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Trevor Lyman’s http://thirdpartyticket.com has released this new video. ThirdPartyTicket now has over 30,00 visitors and almost 7,500 pledges out of 10,000 needed to stage a more inclusive Presidential debate in New York City. They are trying to collect the remaining pledges by November 8. Lyman previously staged “money” bombs which collected $6 million and $4 [...]

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Posted on the VoteNader blog by Loralynne Krobetzky.
The charade of the so-called Presidential Debates continues. Already a carefully orchestrated question and answer session controlled by the Democrat and Republican parties to the exclusion of other candidates, it now emerges that even the moderators may hold partisan bias. Headlines shot up around the country, [...]

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Posted on
Wayne’s blog. Root says he and Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin have very similar style, but that he is the only one one with the substance to match it.
After watching the Vice Presidential debate tonight, I have several opinions to share. I have a rather unique perspective- I’m the “other guy” not in [...]

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Mountain Party Nominee Goes to Court to Join Debate
Nominee Johnson files suit against WV Broadcasters Assoc. & Clay Center
Charleston WV - Today at 1:30 PM Mountain Party nominee for Governor,
Jesse Johnson, filed a request for an injunction against the WV
Broadcasters Association and the Clay Center to compel them to include
all legally recognized and qualified candidates [...]

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