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Libertarian Intelligence in response to Ilya Somin at Volokh Conspiracy:
First, he assumes that the resources of libertarian activists are fungible, and that there are no opportunity costs to erasing the choice labeled “Libertarian” from the ballots of more than 100 million voters. In fact, most Libertarian candidates self-finance their campaigns, and few of [...]

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Dennis Kucinich and Ron Paul should run together in the next presidential campaign (I don’t care who’s on the top of the ticket, they can hold an internet election or some such for all I care). They are in agreement on enough issues that (if elected) they could abolish the Federal Reserve [...]

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Posted at knosha.com.
Venezuela is holding elections today. A lot has been said about Venezuelan corruption and suppression of authentic democracy. In contrast to the unfavorable charges, the Venezuela Information Centre published some note worthy facts about the country’s elections.
Highlights include:
The elections will be the 14th set of national votes held since 1998 [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side

Ian and I had a vision. And, the vision was much more brilliant that the video that became of it. Still, our video is mildy informative, and possibly inspirational.
While Ian and I were all for Cynthia McKinney for President, we have always admired Ralph Nader. Some of the folks who [...]

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Posted at Crazy for Liberty by Doug Craig. Doug is a hard working Libertarian activist from Georgia.
I did not have time to work much on campaigns this year after the Denver convention. I wish I could have worked on the John Monds (1 million votes in Georgia) campaign some. I do not [...]

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By Alex Kane in the Indypendent
While no third party presidential candidate was able to crack the one percent threshold in this year’s election, third parties have long been an important part of the electoral process. Historically, third parties have sprung up from across the ideological spectrum. And although none has won the White House [...]

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Does anyone wish to announce plans to run for LNC now, or know of people who have announced? Who is considering running, but has not decided yet? Please post in the comments.
One person who is not running, after having made tentative plans to run, is IPR’s Peter Orvetti:
As some of you know, I [...]

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Kat Murti reports in the Daily Californian:
Big-name liberal activists-including Ralph Nader and Cindy Sheehan-celebrated the lifelong activism of late UC Berkeley alumnus Peter Camejo Sunday at the International House.
Camejo, who ran as Nader’s vice president in 2004 and was seen by many to be a major figure of the American left, died of lymphoma, [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News
On November 23, Cindy Sheehan, independent candidate for U.S. House this month against U.S. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, said that she will try again in 2010 to unseat Pelosi. It is unclear whether Sheehan will again be an independent candidate, or whether she will seek the nomination of either the Peace [...]

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