From the Naples Daily News: Republican icon Teddy Roosevelt is credited with saying, “Speak softly and carry a big stick.” Republican Congressman Connie Mack has his own variation on the theme. “Don’t speak at all, at least not in the presence of your challengers. And carry a big wad of cash.” Mack, again, is making [...]

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The Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call reports, “It appears that former Minnesota Sen. Dean Barkley (I) has a chance to get elected to the Senate on the Independence Party ticket in November — or at least drastically affect the results of one of the most hotly contested races in the country. Two recent polls have [...]

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The AP profiles peace activist Cindy Sheehan’s independent campaign against Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi in California’s Eighth U.S. House District.

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Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr campaigned in Columbus, Ohio, on Monday. Addressing a crowd of about 250, Barr said, referring to his major-party rivals, “Any one of us can relate to average people. That’s not presidential. We ought to demand much more for a candidate for such high office.” Referring specifically to Republican vice presidential [...]

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The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader “received an enthusiastic reception when he spoke to about 250 people” at a church in Portland, Maine, Monday night. Nader said the “biggest difference between Republicans and Democrats is ‘the speed at which their knees hit the floor’ when corporations knock on the door.” The Boston Globe [...]

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The latest Public Policy Polling poll on the North Carolina gubernatorial race has Libertarian Mike Munger at four percent. The survey of 1,202 likely voters was conducted October 4-5 (+/- 2.8%).

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The hours are ticking down if you want to pledge your support to Thirdpartyticket.com. If 10,000 pledges are made by October 10th, the same man who planned the Ron Paul moneybombs will host a debate for all candidates for president on enough ballots to win the Electoral College. Right now there are just over 8,800 [...]

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“Dumbocracy: Adventures with the Loony Left, the Rabid Right, and Other American Idiots” is the result of Marty Beckerman spending years of his life infiltrating the darkest, craziest corners of activists’ America (and Israel). The self-described “Jew-boy” attends pro- and anti-abortion rallies, pro- and anti-Zionism events, and other events of the grassroots underbelly. Beckerman doesn’t [...]

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The Other Paper, an alternative newspaper in Colombus, Ohio, ran an article recently on the newly formed and fast-growing Modern Whig Party. The Other Paper has a circulation of almost 300,000. The article is available here. The article focused on the astonishing fact that the chairman of the Central Ohio chapter of the party, Kevin [...]

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Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr is among 16 finalists for the Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year. According the Mustache Institute, The American Mustache Institute (AMI) will name the first ever “Robert Goulet Memorial Mustached American of the Year,” recognizing the most impactful Mustached American of the past year. The winner will be [...]

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Stephen Dohnberg writes at digitaljournal.com that Cindy Sheehan plans to start a new party after the November election. She hopes to escape the usual marginalization of being a third party in a winner-take-all system dominated by two major parties by calling her new party The First Party. Anti War activist and challenger for House Speaker [...]

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Andrew Davis, Director of Communications for the Libertarian Party, writes on the LP blog that the party is “committed to 2000 (of these) spots per week over (on the radio) the next 29 days—but hope to do many, many more.”

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2008 Vermont Gubernatorial Race Watch blog carries the news that Buried deep within its news coverage concerning Ralph Nader‘s stops in Vermont today, Fox 44 News offers a sole paragraph within a longer report stating about how (here; video clip available, plays in IE browser, not Firefox): Nader touched on state politics as well, throwing [...]

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Ballot Access News reports On October 6, U.S. District Court Judge David Russell, a Reagan appointee, denied injunctive relief in Barr v Clingman, civ-08-730-R. However, he set a briefing schedule for the declaratory relief part of the case. Judge Russell had also upheld the Oklahoma presidential petition procedures in 1996, in Natural Law Party v [...]

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