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Bob Barr, Ron Paul may have cost McCain a few close states

November 5th, 2008 · 22 Comments

Via Jinchi: He didn’t exactly cost John McCain the election, but if the current numbers hold, it looks like Bob Barr may have cost John McCain victories in North Carolina and Indiana. North Carolina with 98% of precincts reporting * Barack Obama(D) 2,098,401 * John McCain(R) 2,084,344 * Bob Barr(L) 25,031 Indiana with 98% of [...]

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Libertarian Party Presidential performance in percentage terms, a year to year comparison

November 5th, 2008 · 21 Comments

LIBERTARIAN PARTY 2008 (Barr) 0.4% (45 states) 2004 (Badnarik) 0.3% (48 states plus DC) 2000 (Browne) 0.4% (49 states plus DC, plus Smith in Arizona) 1996 (Browne) 0.5% (50 states plus DC) 1992 (Marrou) 0.3% (50 states plus DC) 1988 (Paul) 0.5% (46 states plus DC) 1984 (Bergland) 0.3% (39 states) 1980 (Clark) 1.1% (50 [...]

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Projected order of finish in the Presidential race

November 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments

At this point, enough votes are in to project (wth a pretty high level of certainty) that the order of finish in the Presidential election will be as follows… 1 – Barack Obama 2 – John McCain 3 – Ralph Nader (ind) 4 – Bob Barr (lib) 5 – Cynthia McKinney (grn) 6 – Chuck [...]

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Tags: Third parties, general

Barkley holding at 16% in Minnesota

November 5th, 2008 · 5 Comments

Former U.S. Senate Dean Barkley is holding at about 16% in his race against Norm Coleman and Al Franken. As the candidate of the Minnesota Independence Party, Barkley’s showing will ensure that Minnesota remains a three party state for at least the next several years. It looks like Norm Coleman is inching ahead of Franken [...]

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Tags: Non-left/right parties

Green Party results

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

Broken down into four categories, local, state, national and Presidential, Green Party Watch has Green Party election results as they become available.

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Barr surpasses Badnarik and Browne totals…

November 5th, 2008 · 53 Comments

Former Congressman and Libertarian Presidential nominee Bob Barr has surpassed the last two Libertarian tickets in terms of national vote total. With just about 72% of the national vote counted, the media is reporting that Barr has now polled just under 400,000 votes. Here is where Barr places, so far, in the context of some [...]

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Nader surpasses 2004 vote total

November 5th, 2008 · 2 Comments

With about 70% of the national vote counted, independent candidate Ralph Nader has now surpassed his vote total from 2004. In that year, the Nader/Camejo ticket won 463,000 votes. As of midnight Eastern time, media reports are showing Nader with about 475,000 votes… likely on his way to a total of 650,000 or better. Of [...]

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Tags: Green Party · Independents

Keyes might outpoll Baldwin nationally

November 5th, 2008 · 13 Comments

Despite winning a late endorsement from Ron Paul, Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin has not done particularly well tonight. With 7% of the vote reporting in California, Alan Keyes on the American Independent Party ballot line has already captured over 10,000 votes. If those numbers hold up, Keyes might win well over 100,000 votes just [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Right-wing minor parties

Suggested viewing from Video the Vote

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

From volunteers in the field: http://videothevote.org/video/1130 http://videothevote.org/video/615 http://videothevote.org/video/1175/ http://videothevote.org/video/767/ Did you have any problems with voting today?

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Bob Barr, Ron Paul look likely to cost McCain victories in North Carolina, Indiana, and Montana

November 5th, 2008 · No Comments

With virtually all the votes counted in Indiana and North Carolina, it looks likely that Obama’s narrow margin of victory in both states can be tied to the decent showings of Bob Barr in those two states.

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Tags: Libertarian Party