Via Ballot Access News

Georgia voters vote on December 2 in two partisan run-off elections, for U.S. Senate and for Public Service Commission. In the Public Service Commission race, neither the Democrat nor the Republican had polled 50% because of the presence of the Libertarian nominee, Brandon Givens. On November 17, Givens endorsed Jim Powell, the [...]

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Submitted to IPR by Joel S. Hirschhorn via contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Set aside any Obama euphoria you feel. The other important news is that third-party presidential candidates had a miserable showing this year, totaling just over one percent of the grand total with 1.5 million votes nationwide, compared to some 123 million votes for [...]

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The Australian Sex Party says they are serious about sex.

Sex is a wonderful thing. It’s the reason we were born and (mostly) its NOT the reason we die. Sex, as gender, defines who we are and often what roles we undertake in society. It’s responsible for a heck of a lot of pleasure and [...]

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Applications for the LP’s Platform Committee were due two days ago, and were to include three sample planks. Several applicants have chosen to make their proposals public. Here are the ones I am aware of; please post links to others in the comments.
UPDATE: In the comments, Susan has clarified that her last plank [...]

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Membership growth:
New news at the top 18 November 2008 Growth continues, with 679 people joining the party here. Facebook shows 778.
15 November 2008 We show 675 have joined the party here. On Facebook, 771. Our newest group on Facebook, for South Carolina, has 8 members. California leads the state groups with 44. Is your state [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News
On November 13, Arizona filed a brief with the U.S. Supreme Court, asking the Court to hear Nader v Brewer (which is now called Brewer v Nader). The Court hasn’t assigned the case number yet. The issues are (1) whether early June is too early for independent presidential candidate petitions [...]

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Excerpt from the full article at Chuck Baldwin Live.

A few years ago, I sadly discovered that it was next to impossible to find our nation’s great historic documents together in one volume, so we decided to fix that problem. It took us a full year to research and compile over 50 of our country’s greatest [...]

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From Bob Bird, emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com
Quite a bit written about me in today’s Washington Post, by Chris Cillizza and Paul Kane. They have one minor fact wrong: Pat Buchanan did not run a 3rd-party candidacy in 1996, but was a Republican.
They never called for an interview, but seem to have gotten their info from my [...]

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Posted by Andrew Davis at LP.org
This week, the main buzz is sure to be about possibly bailing-out the automotive industries in Detroit, known as the “Big Three.” The Big Three consist of the three major automotive manufacturers: Ford, General Motors and Chrysler.
Politicians looking to appease their nervous constituency, interest groups (both from the United [...]

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Where is “Ralph Nader country?” We know that “Marlboro Country” is a lung cancer ward and “Countrywide” is a landscape of empty and boarded up homes as far as the eye can see, but where is Nader Country.? If I were presumptuous, I would say, behind every seatbelt. In 2008, after his third, serious, [...]

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At Reason.com, Brian Doherty offers “a postmortem on Bob Barr’s presidential run,” writing in part, “From the outset, Bob Barr’s Libertarian run for the presidency was fraught with great expectations. … Visions of $30 million spun in libertarian heads; expectations soared to include a million LP votes counted on election night.” But “it [...]

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The Green Party is focusing on the Louisiana Second District U.S. House campaign of Malik Rahim, according to a party news release. The vote will take place on December 6. National Green Party treasurer Jody Grage said, “Malik Rahim is more than just a welcome change from Rep. [William] Jefferson and the corrupt [...]

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