Though it is focused on the 2012 presidential election, the top post on the PPP blog at the present moment is entitled: “A Third Party?” Tom Jensen writes: Sifting through our last national poll really makes me think the time is ripe for a third party to have some success. Consider these findings: -Independents are [...]

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A Green Party activist sounds off about Kucinich’s statements that he will support the Democrats’ newest version of the health care bill (which does not include the single-payer option.)

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Tom Cleland is an activist from Minnesota who left the Green Party for the Democrats. Cleland wrote a blog post explaining in detail the background, and then the voting, at a March 14, 2010 Democratic Party convention in Minnesota. His frustration with various candidates and their issues, and with the outcome of the voting, has motivated him to announce a return to the Green Party.

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Independent Eliot Cutler recently sat down with some of his Democratic and Republican opponents (there are also many other independents running) at a forum on natural resources in Maine, sponsored by businesses in that area.  DownEast.com reported the following on his responses: Cutler sees natural gas as an important ingredient in lowering costs and supports [...]

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Sal Peralta, the Secretary of the Independent Party of Oregon, writes in to the Massachusetts Patriot Ledger to take issue with an editorial from earlier in the month, in which the paper mocked the very idea of an “independent” political party. “Where’s the independence in an independents party?” they asked: it’s a mystery why Marshfield [...]

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Reposted from Ballot Access News: On March 15, Lynne Williams announced that her petition drive to get on the Green Party’s primary ballot for Governor will not succeed. See this story. Although the Green Party is ballot-qualified in Maine, it still has ballot access problems. That is because Maine is one of three states that [...]

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Posted at Poli-Tea: In the corporate media and mainstream political press, advocates of third party and independent politics are like Schroedinger’s cat: they exist and they do not exist at the very same time. At Green Party Watch, Dave Schwab invites readers to join an ongoing discussion of third party media strategy: Recent stories about [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Philadelphia Inquirer of March 11 has this editorial, focusing attention on the fact that the challenge to Ralph Nader’s 2004 Pennsylvania petition was illegally carried out with state resources and state employees. Petition challenges in Pennsylvania are brought by private individuals, yet the people who challenged Nader’s petition used government assets. [...]

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Via email and LP blog: Dear Friend of Liberty, I gave a speech to the Libertarian Party of Maryland state convention on Saturday about how “Libertarians Candidates Make a Difference.” Maryland has a nice slate of Libertarian candidates for the 2010 elections. See our entire list of candidates sorted by state. Please note that in [...]

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Video posted front and center at peaceandfreedom.org:

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Jake Towne’s independent libertarian campaign for congress in Pennsylvania’s 15th congressional district first caught my attention last August, when he unveiled his concept of the “open office“. Since then, Towne has maintained a fairly aggressive campaign and has begun to break through the mainstream media’s duopolist filter. The Morning Call, a local paper, profiles Towne’s [...]

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Posted at OpEdNews (read the full thing here): For decades now, the great majority of progressives, particularly those in leadership roles, as well as, labor unions, have supported the Democrats unconditionally. No matter what terrible things the Democrats do, progressives have thus far made it clear that they will continue to back them, because they [...]

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From VTdigger.org: The 40-year-old [Morgan] doesn’t come across as a politician of any stripe; he is a soft-spoken spokesman for the third major party in Vermont, and he has the unenviable task of fielding questions on the touchy issue of whether the Progressives are election spoilers rather than a “keep’em honest” corrective to Democratic candidates [...]

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The British newspaper The Independent is running a piece written by former US Congresswoman and Green Party presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney on Monday.  Read the full thing here. In his State of the Union address to the nation, President Obama defended war, erosion of civil and human rights, creation of the police state, ignoring the [...]

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In New Hampshire, the Foster’s Daily Democrat reports on the efforts of Steven Borne, a third party activist with the New American Independent Party: Borne, a Rye resident, has spearheaded an effort to bring a third-party choice to voters on New Hampshire’s ballots in 2010. He has aligned himself with a “center-left” leaning national organization [...]

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Even though Green Party candidate for governor Rich Whitney got over 10 percent of the vote in the 2006 gubernatorial race, for some reason Rasmussen has left him – and other third party candidates – out of a recently released poll.  Still, without any third party candidate mentioned by name, the “other” category was chosen [...]

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From Ballot Access News: The Oklahoman for March 13 has two letters to the editor, advocating that the legislature pass HB 1072, the ballot access bill. See them at this link. Thanks to Micah Gamino for the link. One of the letters: Regarding “Access endeavor” (ScissorTales, March 6): It’s not entirely accurate that Oklahoma’s lawmakers [...]

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by Mary Starrett Constitution Party Communications Director Posted at http://www.constitutionparty.com/news.php?aid=1181 Want to keep America safe? Get naked. Do your patriotic duty; after all, if you’re not hiding anything what’s the big deal? I recently read that the largest nudist group in the U.S. and Canada, the American Association for Nude Recreation fully endorsed the use [...]

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Posted at pirate-party.us: The United States wishes to increase its enforcement of current copyright laws and is asking for your input. We have included a handy email tool that will allow you to send an email from this site. (read the full document here) The Federal Government is currently undertaking a landmark effort to develop [...]

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Posted at Libertarian Blue: Currently among the two major parties the selection of pro liberty candidates is pretty slim. Both Andrew Cuomo and Rick Lazio are well known gun grabbers and at this time I can’t find any information on potential Democrat candidate Steve Levy in regards to gun rights. Other candidates with unknown gun [...]

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