Recently a petittion was started to ask Bob Barr to participate in the upcoming Free and Equal debate. http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/Demand_Bob_Barr_Debate/
It remains to be seen if this would in any way sway the Barr campaign, that has consistently been dodging debates since the begining of Bob Barr’s campaign.

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Bob Barr says Sen. John McCain is on his “farewell tour” across America, as it has become clear that Sen. McCain has no realistic chance of winning the presidential election.
“The wheels on the Straight Talk Express have come off,” says Barr, the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president. “Sen. McCain will be spending the last two [...]

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Ballot Access News reports that
On October 21, former Arkansas Democratic legislator Dwayne Dobbins asked the Arkansas Supreme Court to put him on the ballot as the Democratic nominee for State House, district 39. He had won the May primary but the party had removed him from the ballot anyway. Dobbins argues that the party [...]

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H/T Michelle Shinghal

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via UPI
Clark County Auditor Greg Kimsey said Nader’s name was misspelled as “Nadar” on all of the ballots printed for the 187 precincts in the county, The (Vancouver, Wash.) Columbian reported Monday.
Kimsey said the error in the mail-in ballots, which are the only ballots used in the county, was not caught by a proofreader of [...]

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From the Peninusla Clarion, thanks to Bob Bird via contact.ipr@gmail.com
Full article here.
The responses at Tuesday’s U.S. senate forum, co-sponsored by both Kenai and Soldotna chambers of commerce and the Alaska Industry Support Alliance, were as varied and unique as the candidates running.
Mayor of Anchorage Mark Begich, a Democrat, Libertarian David Haase and Alaskan Independence Party [...]

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H/T Miller Politics via contact.ipr@gmail.com
Transcript and audio here.
The Rev. Chuck Baldwin calls the Federal Reserve Board a “fraudulent system.” Baldwin, the Constitution Party candidate for president, blames the current economic crisis on bankers and government that “repudiated sound money principles.”
The problem, Baldwin says, is that people have been spending more than they can afford. [...]

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Green Party Presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney was interviewed today on National Public Radio’s Talk of the Nation by host Neal Conan. During the interview Congresswoman McKinney was asked by Conan to explain where she differed from Ralph Nader.
When McKinney tried to explain that the foundation of the Green Party, the Four Pillars [...]

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Another development in the story about the Free and Equal debate, C-SPAN has agreed to air the debate live. In addition it will still be available for live coverage and commentary on http://www.rtrradio.com. At this time only Independant Ralph Nader and Constitution Party candidate are confirmed. Whether or not this development will attract the participation [...]

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Excerpted from the article here.

Millay [...] lives in Greendale, a small suburb of St. Louis, with her husband, Tom Knapp, and two boys. There, she was elected city marshal in 2004 amid a flurry of controversy. The city marshal is in charge of property inspections.
At the time, the city board wanted to make [...]

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Originally posted by Gregg Jocoy here, here, and here.
In an interesting turn of events, New Jersey Green Steven Welzer, Green Party candidate for US House of Representatives from the 4th District, says he will not win the election in November, and says he would prefer that the Democratic Party nominee win the race. [...]

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Via contact.ipr@gmail.com
Eric Schansberg is the Libertarian candidate in Indiana’s 9th US House District.
On Tuesday evening, Dr. Eric Schansberg engaged in a two-hour debate with Rep. Baron Hill and former Rep. Mike Sodrel at the Vincennes University campus in Jasper. The first hour was broadcast on radio and television across the district. The second hour [...]

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Via contact.ipr@gmail.com:

Campaign Updates with less than two weeks from the election
1) New Campaign video
2) October 24 Anti-UN Day
3) October 31 Reverse Trick-or-Treating
4) November 4 - Election Day
1) I have uploaded a new campaign video to
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DaTC6wEo8JQ
- the video compares the record of the three candidate for US Senate.
2) Friday, October 24, is UN Day and as [...]

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A post on The Guardian’s political blog, borne from the sight of a Chuck Baldwin billboard, informs its UK readers about the state of third parties and their presidential candidates in the United States. And it even gives Independent Political Report and the Catholic Trotskyist Party a bit of press.
There was supposed to be [...]

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VoteNader blog reports
(article is from yesterday):
Ralph Nader today is campaigning in Idaho — the 49th state he has campaigned in this year.
Tomorrow, Ralph will be in Montana — fulfilling his pledge to you to campaign in all fifty states this year.

74 year old Ralph Nader, seen here with Amber Lee “Obama Girl” Ettinger, also [...]

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