Over at The Hill, some of the nation’s top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today:

Independents and third parties have been playing a bigger role in recent elections. With poll numbers for both parties on the decline, is there a real opening for independent/third party candidates?

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Green Party candidates had election wins in the following states: California, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New York, Ohio and Pennsylvania. This post is a list of all the Green Party candidates (partisan and non-partisan races) who won this week, as provided by GP-US, and reposted at the Green Party Watch web-site.

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Three Green Party of Suffolk members were recently elected to chair national committees at the Green Party of the United States (GP-US). Green Party of Suffolk Chair Roger Snyder, and Secretary Ian Wilder have been elected to be Co-chairs of the GP-US Accreditation Committee (AC) and Presidential Campaign Support Committee (PCSC) respectively. Also Green Party of Suffolk Executive Board member Matthew Lavery was elected Co-chair of the National Green Party House Campaign Committee (NGPHCC) early this year.

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Illinois Governor Pat Quinn is set to name four people to serve on the board of Chicago State University.  One of them, Julie Samuels, ran for Lt. Gov. as a Green in 2006 and is currently the vice president of the state party.  The Chicago Tribune says that the Green Party is “a group Quinn [...]

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In Pennsylvania, in the race for Superior Court Judge, Marakay Rogers received about 13% of the vote of the highest vote getter. That means that Marakay Rogers has secured the Libertarian Party in Pennsylvania its minor party status for the next two years.

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Third party showing in the 2009 Special U.S. House election in California’s 10th district are:

Green, Jeremy Cloward: 1.99%
Peace & Freedom, Mary McIlroy: 1.48%
American Independent Party, Jerry Denham: 1.23%

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In a rare two-way race between two members of a third party, a member of the Green Party is beating out a member of the Communist Party for a seat on the Cleveland City Council.  Both are also members of the Democratic Party, and Congressman Dennis Kucinich endorsed the Communist.  With 17% of precincts reporting, [...]

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Both NBC and the NY Times have called the 2009 NYC Mayor race for Bloomberg. Though, there is not a big percentage of polling results in. And, as of 11 minutes ago, the AP says that Bloomberg and Thompson are in a close race. At NY1 there is a chart with numbers for all the third party candidates in races including Mayor, Comptroller, Public Advocate, all the way to City Council members.

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Report election returns, post links for where we can find them, discuss the election, talk about everything election-related!

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Because Reverend Billy Talen is a theatrical activist and a performance artist, it is not immediately clear if the announcement on his blog is a literal fact, or a statement about campaign finances. Though, Talen’s campaign blog says that he has won $100 million dollars in the lottery, so, now…”‘No-one has ever seen an ad saturation campaign like this!’ enthused the Vote Rev Billy campaign manager Danny Valdes. Thousands of new hires are fanning out across the city giving away customized ‘Billy Blackberries’ with Talen ads on their screens. Sky-writing, Mitzvah tank-like street sounds, backseat cab ads, singing waiters, billboard trucks – the Reverend will be everywhere until the polls close.”

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Reverend Billy, running for Mayor of New York City, says, “I feel closer to solving the riddle of activism in 2009. We’ve known how conservative the Democrat/Working Families and the Republican/Independence Parties are. It’s Coke and Pepsi, it’s McDonalds and Burger King. The two party system enforces a strict censorship. We had to experience first-hand the harsh silence of it…”

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Video posted. Reverend Billy – aka Billy Talen – is running for Mayor of New York City on the Green Party line. On Halloween, Reverend Billy supporters dressed as Zombergs (Bloomberg Zombies), seeking to suck the blood of taxpayers with a third term.

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The Democratic mayor of Pittsburgh is facing two major independent challengers in tomorrow’s election, Franco Harris and Kevin Acklin. Our own Darcy G. Richardson commented at Ballot Access News: An “Immaculate Election,” as Jim Riley so delightfully put it, is not beyond the realm of possibility. Harris’s uphill campaign continues to pick up steam as [...]

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The New Jersey Democratic Party is now admitting that it has payed for robocalls in favor of independent candidate Chris Daggett.  The political chattering class has been saying that Daggett voters are most likely to have Republican Chris Christie as their second choice. The Democratic State Committee now admits paying for a robocall to Somerset [...]

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New York Times Op-Ed writer, Ross Douthat, comments on the effect that third parties do have and could have on politics. He projects for 2010, “This year has been a good year for independent candidates. Given the public mood these days, 2010 could be an even better one…”

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Once again, New York City’s public campaign financing system is to thank for an unusually high budget Green Party campaign.  This time, Green city council candidate David Pechefsky planned to dig into his $35,000 war chest in the final days before the election, while the Democratic candidate he is running against only had about $26,000 [...]

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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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