A SurveyUSA poll on the all-party primary for the special election in California’s 10th U.S. House District finds several alternative party candidates and write-in candidates, along with minor Democratic and Republican contenders, polling a combined four percent. However, the poll did not initially list the candidates, and the results posted online do not break down [...]

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Green Party thinker Asa Gordon will give a presentation, “A Civil Action to Democratize the Electoral College”, on August 15th, in Massachusetts.

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Chicago Sun-Times columnist Don Terry profiles LeAlan Jones, who is running for U.S. Senate in Illinois as a Green. Terry writes that the 30-year-old is “green all right. He has never sought political office. So he knows what you’re thinking: He’s a kid. He must be nuts. He doesn’t have a chance. ‘That’s what they [...]

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Jazz News profiles Edward Forchion, a.k.a. “New Jersey Weedman”, who founded the Legalize Marijuana Party in 1998 and ran for several offices. In 2008, he “fled New Jersey in a self imposed political exile to sunny California, a state that, per the passage of the Prop. 215 Compassionate Use Act of 1996 and SB420 recognizes [...]

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A news release from CarbonCopyPRO says Wayne Allyn Root has endorsed the product, which the makers call “the premier internet marketing system and entrepreneurial education platform. In a recent interview with CarbonCopyPRO Senior Vice President Andrew Cass, the bestselling author, and media icon talked about how CarbonCopyPRO supports his personal commitment to entrepreneurship as a [...]

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Nashville Scene reports Tom Kovach, chairman of America’s Independent Party of Tennessee, is organizing a demonstration outside a Nashville middle school for Friday morning. It was originally intended to protest an appearance by Rep. Jim Cooper, but Cooper has cancelled. Kovach says the protest will take place anyway.

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Elizabeth Benjamin’s Daily Politics blog gives an excellent update on independent petitioning for NYC Mayor. Benjamin displays the BOE ledger of candidates who have already filed, and notes that more petitions may be filed between now and the deadline of August 18th.

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US District Court Judge Cameron Currie upheld a South Carolina election law which, while permitting fusion, also says that if someone gets the nomination of one party first, and later tries to get the nomination of a second party and fails, then the first nomination is voided. The plaintiff-candidate is Eugene Platt of the Green Party.

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ABC News Medical Unit posted a story last week about possible uses of Steve Kubby’s cannabis lozenge to treat flu, and this week 2008 Libertarian Party Vice Presidential candidate Wayne Root made available an excerpt from his book passionately criticizing the prosecution of his 2008 LP rival Kubby on charges related to medical marijuana.

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William Talen –also known as “Reverend Billy” — is collecting signatures to run on the Green Party line for Mayor of New York City. 7,500 signatures are required to be submitted. The campaign has announced that they have over 12,000 signatures. Their current goal is 16,000 signatures.

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The Other McCain writes in Libertarian Skinny-Dipping in Daytona Political news consumers in March 2007 were interested in the Libertarian Party’s prospects for . . . well, anything, really. When the Libertarians have nerds like George Phillies, stoners like Steve Kubby and fanatical purists like Mary Ruwart seeking the presidential nomination, and when the party’s [...]

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Posted at On The Wilder Side. Click titles for links. Irish Green Party election broadcast 2009: Irish Green Party Election Broadcast 2009. On June 5th Deirdre de Burca and Dan Boyle ran to create thousands of new green jobs. Think big, vote Green. http://vote.greenparty.ie. Follow them on twitter: http://twitter.com/greenparty_ie Think Again, Vote Green Vote for [...]

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Posted by Alan Keyes, 2008 Presidential candidate, America’s Independent Party, at his blog, Loyal To Liberty: Those who are opposed to Obama’s totalitarian government takeover of the health care system should be wary of thinking that the tussle over it is a struggle between leftists who favor socialism and pro-Big Business proponents of the private [...]

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List compiled by Damon Eris and originally posted at Poli-Tea. Emailed to IPR. Frustrated by recent attempts to locate a single source listing declared or potential third party and independent candidates for office in 2010, I decided to compile one myself focusing on races for governor, senate and congressional seats. The results? There are already [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin, Constitution Party 2008 Presidential candidate ChuckBaldwinLive.com The Internet is abuzz with news about the construction of internment camps all across America. Of course, “mainstream” media outlets refuse to touch the subject; or if they do, they pooh-pooh the story; they do what Glenn Beck recently did: try to debunk the story as [...]

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Email from the Australian Sex Party: Well its official. We are now a registered political party, entitled to take our place on the ballot paper up there with the big boys and also eligible for public funding of our election campaigns should we get more than four per cent of the primary vote. Its not [...]

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By Ralph Nader Nader.org President Barack Obama The White House 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20500 Dear President Obama, We are writing again to urge you to restore the obliterated rights of victims of defective GM and Chrysler cars. Our earlier letter of July 14 has received no reply. The bankruptcy process for GM [...]

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Emailed to IPR: Let the Citizen Revolution Begin: THROW THE BUMS OUT! Obama and Paranoid Democrats Denigrate Citizen Protestors by Calling Them “The Mob” Town Hall Meetings Turn Ugly- But “The Mobs” are Merely the Citizens Reacting to Socialism Obama Orders Union Thugs to Intimdate Peaceful Citizen Protestors By Wayne Allyn Root, Author The Conscience [...]

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Attention: News Editor For Immediate Release Contact: Hillary Kane, 267-971-3559 Skip Mendler, 570-251-3637 Green Party urges passage of SB 935 legalizing same-sex marriage Leaders outraged over Sen. Eichelberger’s comments that society “allows” gays and lesbians to exist GREEN PARTY OF PENNSYLVANIA http://www.gpofpa.org This week, the Green Party of Pennsylvania spoke out in support of Senate [...]

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On the front page of LP.org today: HEADLINES (press releases): Libertarians turn up August heat on health care takeover WASHINGTON — America’s third-largest party urged its members Monday to attend public forums being held by House members over the August recess and put their signature to one simple pledge – will they promise not to [...]

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