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Barr campaign social networking chart

November 12th, 2008 · 4 Comments

Posted at Gordon Unleashed

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Ron Paul signed a pledge not to run as an independent or alternative party candidate

November 12th, 2008 · 42 Comments

Posted at Liberty Maven by Marc Gallagher: The GOP primary ballot access laws in several states force candidates to pledge to not run on another party’s ticket if they should not win the Republican nomination. In an email sent to us (included below) by Jesse Benton, Ron Paul’s spokesman and campaign communications manager, clarified this [...]

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Florida Green Party files lawsuit in ‘mystery Greens’ case

November 12th, 2008 · No Comments

Posted at Ballot Access News The Florida Green Party sued one of its own state legislative candidates back on September 24, 2008, to gain information on whether she paid her own filing fee, or whether possibly Republican Party campaign consultants may have paid it. A hearing is set for January 6, 2009, to decide if [...]

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Ballot Access News: current voter registration tallies by party

November 12th, 2008 · 7 Comments

Original post here. Among parties other than Democrats and Republicans, it appears the Libertarians held steady in percentage (presumably, this means a higher raw number, since a lot of people registered to vote for the first time in a high turnout presidential election). The bulk of the “Constitution Party” total comes from the AIP in [...]

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Write-ins counted in Conneticut

November 12th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Write-in votes have been reported in Conneticut: Baldwin 287 McKinney 53 Calero 40 Moore 18 Baldwin got more than 2.5x the other register write-ins and about 18.6% of what Michael Peroutka got in 2004 as a ballot listed candidate. McKinney recieved only .55% of the votes ballot-listed David Cobb recieved in 2004. Roger Calero, running [...]

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Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Libertarian Party · Socialist/left parties · Third parties, general · Uncategorized

Write-ins counted in New Hampshire

November 12th, 2008 · 27 Comments

According to the Concord Monitor, all write-ins in New Hampshire are now counted and the final results are: Hillary Clinton – 1124 votes Ron Paul – 1092 votes Chuck Baldwin – 226 votes Mitt Romney – 112 votes Mike Huckabee – 61 votes Cynthia McKinney – 41 votes Sarah Palin – 18 votes Bill Clinton [...]

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Deadline to apply for Libertarian National Platform committee is this week (Nov. 16)

November 12th, 2008 · 29 Comments

From LP NEWS: The Libertarian National Committee is looking to appoint ten people to serve on the Platform Committee in preparation for the 2010 Libertarian National Convention. Committee members will be expected to expend an appreciable amount of their time in the months leading up to the Convention; and due to the anticipated amount of [...]

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Cynthia McKinney has over 150,000 votes

November 12th, 2008 · 8 Comments

Latest results: Obama 66,254,348 McCain 57,944,946 Nader 690,066 Barr 506,497 Baldwin 181,382 McKinney 150,061

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Vintage Ralph Nader

November 12th, 2008 · 12 Comments

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Tags: Independents