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With some precincts still not reported from Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington, and write-in votes and provisional ballots yet to be tallied, the Libertarian Bob Barr-Wayne Allyn Root ticket has 499,912 votes across the U.S., and will almost certainly become just the second Libertarian ticket to receive [...]

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Malik Rahim is the Green Party candidate for Congress in Louisiana District 2. The election will be on December 6. It was delayed because of Hurricane Gustav.
IPR previously covered Rahim here, here, here, here and here.

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From the Contra Costa Times:
Mt. Diablo Peace and Justice Center — “After the Election – What’s Next for Democracy?”
7 p.m. Nov. 18. Speaker: Mike Gravel.
Mt. Diablo Unitarian Universalist Church, 55 Eckley Lane, Walnut Creek.
Suggested donation: $15. 925-933-7850.

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Here are a couple of items that have been posted after the election on the VoteNader blog:

Fox talk show host Shepard Smith repeated my question that was posed for Senator Barack Obama in an interview with Fox radio station KTRH Houston but deleted the last several words after giant corporations. The full question posed [...]

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Green Party Political Director Brent McMillan is the guest on today’s Green Party Watch Radio. He will be discussing the election results of November 4th, the coming election in New Orleans, and other things as they come up.

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This was brought up in the comments covering IPR readers predictions: how’d we do?; I said,
anyone want to make any early predictions for 2010, ‘12 or beyond?
So far, the only one bold enough to reveal the contents of the crystal ball is IPR’s 2008 prognosticator of the year, John C. Jackson:

2012 Predictions:
Obama 57.3%
Huckabee [...]

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From Third Estate Sunday Review:

Dear Nader Supporters,
Ralph Nader will appear on MSNBC on Sunday, November 9th, from 11:15 to 11:30 EST.
Please tune in to hear Ralph’s thougths on the 2008 presidental election and what his next steps will be moving into 2009.
Onward!
The Nader Team
That e-mail hit inboxes Saturday afternoon and along with offering a heads [...]

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Steve Kubby was a candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2008, and the runner up for the party’s VP nomination in 2008 and 2000. He was also the party’s candidate for Governor of California in 1998. He is currently working on a new business venture in the medical field. Disclosure: I worked on his [...]

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“Tuesday night Libertarians were a sideshow in a historical event on par with the moon landing,” Dave Weigel writes at Reason.com. At presidential candidate Bob Barr’s election party, “party operators like Stewart Flood and Daniel Adams were checking the progress of John Monds, a black businessman who’d run on the ticket for Georgia Public [...]

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G.R. Anderson writes in the Minnesota Post that Independence Party activists “have their sights set on St. Paul in 2010.” This year, U.S. Senate nominee Dean Barkley “scored more than twice the percentage points he did in Senate bids in 1994 and 1996. And the party has maintained major-party status, with Peter Hutchinson’s [...]

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In an editorial this morning, North Carolina’s Durham Herald-Sun writes, “One encouraging outcome of Tuesday’s election, one that might be easy to overlook, was Mike Munger’s showing in the race for governor. Munger, the Libertarian candidate who happens to chair the political science department at Duke University, collected 120,876 votes across the state, 2.86 [...]

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Most of the elections wrapped up on Tuesday, with only a few close contests still up in the air as votes are being tallied. However, a few will take place next month.
In Georgia, there is a runoff election in the US Senate race because no candidate got over 50% of the vote. Libertarian candidate [...]

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