The previous record for most votes for a Constitution Party presidential campaign was Howard Phillips’ 1996 campaign in which he recieved 184,820. Chuck Baldwin is within view of this record right now. With 99% of precincts reporting, Chuck Baldwin has achieved 180,615 votes nationally. This number will inevitably go up as the final precincts finish [...]

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Recent Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, writing in USA Tomorrow.

“He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.” (Luke 22:36 KJV)
Most of us are aware that the heroic actions of a brave woman at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado a few days ago saved the lives of [...]

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by Less Antman. Also posted on my blog, among others.
In 1985, the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola committed one of the biggest marketing gaffes in history. After decades of establishing their product as “The Real Thing,” they accepted the findings of their research team that discovered a taste people preferred in blind tests, and proudly [...]

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The Vermont Progressives re-elected four state legislators this year, but lost two seats. The Progressive party legislators who were re-elected are Susan Davis, Sarah Edwards, David Zuckerman, and Sandy Haas.
Additionally, as previously reported here , Richard Carroll was elected to the Arkansas legislature as a Green.
Independents were elected to their legislatures in Wisconsin, Massachussetts, Rhode [...]

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There is already a rumor starting that Former Rep. Virgil Goode, who lost his seat last Tuesday, may be joining the Constitution Party before his time is up in Congress, joining the Constitution Party afterwards, or running for President in 2012. These rumors come from credible inside sources and you heard it here first.

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We are currently at over 340,000 visits and over 907,000 page views since the site debuted on May 20, 2008. If we can avoid too steep of a post-election drop, a million page views by the six month mark (Nov. 20) is doable. So far this month we are at over 77,000 page views, with [...]

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On election eve, IPR polled readers to see how they saw the elections turning out. Here is how their predictions stacked up against the results:
bsharitt:
Overwhelming Obama victory with increased democratic majorities.
It depends on what you call overwhelming, but they certainly increased their majorities, and the electoral vote will not be close unless [...]

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From the election results page at LP.org, here is a list of candidates who kept their state parties on the ballot and how many votes they got:
David Herbert Wyoming US House 11,028 4.9%
Nathan Santucci Nevada State Assembly District 22 14,930 22.3%
Stan Jones Montana Governor 8,698 3.1%
William Bryan Strange, III Texas Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 9 1,041,499 18.1%
Robert Underwood Massachusetts United States Senate 94,745 3.2%
(Mass. state chair George Phillies reports that party [...]

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from the Nov. 7 issue of Counterpunch. org:
Talking to Nader about the Campaign, on November 5.
AC: In 2000,you drew nearly 10,000 people to a speech in Portland, Oregon. This year you got barely 2,000 in in the whole of Multnomah County where Portland lies, perhaps the most progressive county in the nation. Is this a [...]

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A final press release from the David Krikorian for Congress (in 2008) campaign:
David Krikorian would like to thank you for your support!
He would also like to congratulate all his fellow candidates in the November 4th election in all races. Win or lose, you chose to run and gave it your best. This is [...]

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The Modern Whig Party – which seeks to cater to disenchanted Democrats and Republicans – has announced that it has its first win under its belt only months after forming. It is unclear from the press releasewhether he ran for office under the Modern Whig banner or not, but according to a commenter he [...]

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