The Rochester Democrat and Chronicle recently featured two independent candidates in Monroe County, New York, and gave an even-handed assessment of their campaigns and their chance at success.  The article even included an oft-ignored aspect of third party politics – the potential for a candidate who loses the election to successfully inject an idea into [...]

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Mary DeCamp, a Green Party candidate for city council in Tuscon, Arizona, had a letter published in the Arizona Daily Wildcat, the University of Arizona’s newspaper.  Her letter was critical of the fact that she was left out of an article about Propisition 200, a “public safety” referendum: My message as a third party candidate [...]

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