Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will be on national television several times tomrrow, Tuesday, October 14th. The appearances are as follows:
Tomorrow, Ralph be moving from TV studio to TV studio, breaking the down the walls of enforced media silence.
Ralph will be on CNBC with John Harwood between 2 and 3 p.m. EST.
He will be [...]

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After losing in a primary for the Democratic nominee for LA-06’s Congressman, State Representative Michael Jackson switched his affiliation to “non” and started an independent run for the seat. His most recent poll result is 9% support.

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Dave Brownlow, who is running for Oregon’s open Senate seat on the Constitution Party ticket, is polling at 7% in a recent SurveyUSA poll. In late September, Brownlow polled at 8%, but that is a difference which falls into the margin of error of +/-4.1%. Brownlow’s Democratic opponent showed 46% support in this [...]

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Green Party Vice Presidential nominee Rosa Clemente will be the guest on Green Party Watch Radio this Sunday at 3 PM.
Clemente has been speaking across the nation on behalf of the Green Party and the McKinney/Clemente ticket. A Hip Hop journalist and activist, Clemente has brought a focus on new constituencies and fresh ideas [...]

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Richard Carroll, Green Party candidate for District 39 in the Arkansas House of Representatives, may in fact face a Democratic candidate on the ballot in November. According to a post at Ballot Access News, Democrat Dwayne Dobbins has filed a state lawsuit to claim that party’s spot on the ballot, a spot he was [...]

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In a message posted at Greens for Greens, former Green Party senatorial candidate Carl Romanelli reports that thirteen Democratic Party apparatchiks have been indicted
on charges of theft, conflict of interest, and conspiracy. Some of these charges were related to a crushing petition challenge of the Carl Romanelli U.S. Senate campaign…
At a reported cost of four [...]

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Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader has received the endorsement of Chris Hedges, a journalist who won a Pulitzer Prize when writing for the New York Times. Hedges has previously said that he would vote for Nader because neither Obama nor McCain are unequivocally against continuing the war in Iraq.
Today, Hedges stated, “I place no [...]

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In an editorial in the New York Daily News, Harvard Professor Alan Dershowitz points to the Democratic and Republican party candidates shared support for the government of Israel, and to the Green Party’s lack thereof. He points out that, in the “major” parties, support for the government of Israel is a given, while in [...]

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Louisiana’s Alexandria Town Talk reports that when that state’s voters “go to the polls to chose a president on Nov. 4, they will find a name on the ballot many might not expect — Ron Paul. Louisiana will be only one of two states where voters will have the opportunity to pull the lever [...]

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Florida’s Herald Tribune writes, “Getting on the ballot in Florida is a breeze for minor-party candidates. They just have to show their party held a national convention, reported the name of their nominee to the state by Sept. 1, and have at least 27 members.” While candidates like independent Ralph Nader and Libertarian [...]

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Indiana’s Elkhart Truth reports that there are 10 qualified write-in candidates for president in the state. They are Chuck Baldwin, Lawson Mitchell Bone, Darrell L. Castle, Michael L. Faith, Lou Kujawski, Cynthia McKinney, Brian Moore, Kevin Mottus, Ralph Nader, and John Leroy Plemons. Libertarian Bob Barr is the only alternative party candidate actually [...]

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Ohio’s Columbus Dispatch reports on Don Elijah Eckhart’s independent run in the state’s 15th U.S. House District, saying he “could be a wild card in a close race” in which he “has secured endorsements from two political-action committees that have clout with conservative voters: the Ohio Right to Life PAC and the Family First PAC.” [...]

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International Viewpoint runs an obituary of Bill Banta, “a revolutionary socialist his entire adult life,” who died August 20. Banta was twice expelled from the Socialist Workers Party.

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