By way of The Whig: Excerpts from Huffington Post: We Need More Parties But what if both parties split at the same time? What if we ended up with four parties instead of two? This could avoid the zero-sum nature of attempting only a “third” party. The seeds for the splits are obvious to see, [...]

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Billy Wharton at Socialist Webzine: Call it the nightmare before Christmas or Santa’s lump of healthcare coal. Either title captures the disastrous qualities of the healthcare reform bill passed by Senate on Thursday. After months of media coverage, a summer of wild town hall meetings and all the high-sounding rhetoric one could swallow, a 2,000 [...]

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Since IPR has been covering Joe Kennedy‘s participation in the Massachusetts US Senate special election to replace Ted Kennedy a lot lately, here’s another compilation post as an easy reference to all the articles. It includes the articles in the earlier compilation post as well as the ones since then. Most recent first, with the [...]

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Sent by Scott Lieberman to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Wes Benedict and Art DiBianca have worked hard over the past few months on this project, and they just posted a list of Elected Libertarians on the LP web site. http://www.lp.org/candidates/elected-officials Mr. Benedict told me to publicize the list so he can get some feedback on how people like [...]

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An article at The New Agenda makes the case that the Democratic and Republican Parties consider women voters to be “expendable and exploitable,” and argues that women’s interests would be better served through third party activism: both parties seem to have taken all of their constituencies for granted, but women are the most expendable and [...]

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Vermont Progressive Party State Representative Sandy Haas posted the following at the Prog Blog: In his December 16 St. Albans Messenger editorial, Emerson Lynn asserted that the Vermont legislature should not “waste time” talking about health care reform. That, of course, is the position of the 40 Republicans in the U.S. Senate, who voted to [...]

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“…W.A.R. isn’t technically a conservative. He’s a libertarian and a Libertarian. Which makes him a Goldwater-type conservative.” – Chuck Muth

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: I came across your website while doing a search for any references that include my name or campaign, and I noticed that you are a group that reports about third-party and independent candidates. I would like to direct you to my campaign site and let you know that I would love to [...]

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From the Associated Press, via The Leaf-Chronicle (excerpt): Christi Gillespie sent a statement to reporters on Thursday, saying she had also switched her party affiliation from Republican to Libertarian. Gillespie said she felt it “morally necessary” to resign because Paul has prohibited campaign staffers and his supporters from attacking the Republican Party or GOP Sen. [...]

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Ian Bridgeforth, in The Examiner: With 2010 right around the corner (literally), it is expected that all the talking heads and pundits will be zeroing in on the elections next fall. The cable networks will be buzzing about whether Republicans or Democrats will be the dominant party come November 2010. But this time, they might [...]

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Ballot Access News: Bill Scheuer is a member of the Illinois Green Party who is seeking his party’s nomination for the U.S. House, 8th district. A Democratic Party official challenged his petition to be on the Green Party primary ballot, but the State Board of Elections recently deadlocked, 4-4, on whether to remove him from [...]

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Posted by Richard Winger at Ballot Access News: As the year 2010 commences, Ballot Access News is 25 years old. I wish to thank everyone who reads Ballot Access News, and especially to thank those of you who post comments. As far as I know, most or all of the other election law blogs don’t [...]

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The following was sent to supporters of Matt Reichel, a Green Party candidate for Congress in Chicago: I would like to extend best wishes on a Happy New Year: may the coming year bring well-being and joy in all of your lives. To be frank, 2009 was a disastrous year for progressives. The theme at [...]

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