Fom IPR comments: NOVEMBER 17, 2008 (Berkeley, Calif.) — The Protestant Stalinist Party of America (PSP) today announced that comrade Yuri Titov won election as President of the United States of America, receiving 99.9% of all votes cast in the November 4, 2008 general election in the United States. “Our congratulations to comrade Titov,” said [...]
Is this the new political party you’ve been looking for?
November 17th, 2008 · 43 Comments
Tags: Socialist/left parties
Wayne Allyn Root headlines Bill of Rights Day event in Indianapolis
November 17th, 2008 · 19 Comments
From the Libertarian Party of Indiana A strong Libertarian party is a form of free speech and free assembly, and ballot access one of the most important aspects of our party spreading the message of smaller government. In these times of bailouts, increased taxes, and bigger government, the Libertarian Party must be stronger than ever. [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party
Ethnic Turk elected co-leader of German Greens
November 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
BBC News reports: The first ethnic Turkish head of a German political party has dismissed any comparisons between himself and US President-elect Barack Obama. Cem Ozdemir, who was elected co-leader of the Green Party at the weekend, told Germany’s Bild am Sonntag newspaper such comparisons were “inappropriate”. “It is enough for me to be Ozdemir [...]
Tags: Green Party
IPR in new hands
November 17th, 2008 · 86 Comments
Independent Political Report has changed hands for the first time. The new owner of Independent Political Report is Chris Martin. Chris is the proprietor of Net Exclusive LLC, he’s a silent investor and believes in the site’s core mission. All bloggers will remain on board, if they choose. All standards of writing, reporting, and commenting [...]
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Video: Libertarian Party history
November 17th, 2008 · 11 Comments
Tags: Libertarian Party
Ralph Nader got over 700,000 votes
November 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments
David Leip’s US Election Atlas has at least 705,875 votes counted as being cast for third place presidential finisher Ralph Nader thus far. Nader, and other candidates, will continue to have write-in and absentee votes counted for several more weeks. The complete results from Leip at this time:
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Chuck Baldwin breaks CP record for presidential votes
November 17th, 2008 · 4 Comments
Chuck Baldwin has officially broken the Constitution Party record for most presidential votes. The previous record had been set by Howard Phillips in 1996 and was 184,820 votes. Chuck Baldwin, according to David Leip’s US Election Atlas, has 186,335 votes. Write-in votes from a number of states have not been counted or finalized. Howard Phillips’ [...]
Tags: Constitution Party
Write-ins set records
November 17th, 2008 · No Comments
Write-in totals are not completely counted, nor do we know who they went to yet. But David Leip’s US Election Atlas has at least 78,346 write-ins being counted thus far. This is the largest official write-in total ever. It can be reasonably expected that Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin will recieve [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party
Constitution Party assesses its general election performance
November 17th, 2008 · 9 Comments
The Constitution Party Makes Inroads posted on the party’s website by James N. Clymer Constitution Party National Chairman Or… There’s More Than One Way To Skin A Career Politician! Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin and his running mate Darrell Castle wound up with close to 179,000 votes, showing even with no ads and comparatively [...]
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