Ken Moellman is the Libertarian Party of Kentucky Chairman, as well as a frequent commenter here at Independent Political Report. This blog post from Cincinatti.com reports that Moellman is part of an effort to change the county government in Campbell County, Kentucky. Libertarians and Republicans are banding together in Campbell County to try and change [...]

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The Sunshine State News ran an article on Monday about the number of Independent and Third Party candidates on the ballot in Florida in 2010. While Gov. Charlie Crist and gubernatorial candidate Bud Chiles are getting most of the attention, Florida is seeing a large number of independents taking on both the Democrats and Republicans [...]

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Libertarian Party candidate for state representative Tom Gleinser has withdrawn from the race and endorsed the Republican challenger in an apparent attempt to unify the anti-incumbent vote. Libertarian Tom Gleinser, who was challenging the reelection bid of incumbent state Rep. Patrick Rose, announced today he has withdrawn and will back Republican Jason Isaac. Gleinser, of [...]

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Gayle McLaughlin is currently the most prominent elected official in the Green Party as the Mayor of Richmond, California–a city with a population of over 100,000 people. McLaughlin is running for re-election in 2010 and was profiled in the Richmond Confidential. Richmond mayor Gayle McLaughlin isn’t the untested commodity she was four years ago, when [...]

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Maine is one of the rare states in which there is a recent history of voting for third party candidate and independents. Eliot Cutler is an independent candidate for Governor of the Pine Tree State. Rasmussen recently polled the gubernatorial race in Maine and found that Cutler polled 7%. The first Rasmussen Reports telephone survey [...]

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Following a poll on the Senate race in Illinois that had the Green candidate at 14 percent, a poll released today from PPP shows Green candidate for governor Rich Whitney – who received about 10.5 percent of the vote in 2006 – garnering 9 percent of the vote.  At this point in the polls in [...]

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Ballot Access News reports on election results from two stories we covered in the previous months. Both Nancy Lord and Art Olivier, former vice presidential nominees of the Libertarian Party in 1992 and 2000 respectively, lost their bids to win primaries in major parties on June 8th. Lord in a Republican Primary, Olivier ran in [...]

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Rasmussen Polls released a new poll on June 15th for the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. The major party nominees are Jim Demint, the Republican incumbent, and Alvin Greene, the Democrat and political newcomer. Greene has attracted negative media because of a pending investigation concerning whether he did or did not show pornographic material [...]

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Kathie Glass was just nominated last weekend by the Libertarian Party to run for Governor of Texas. Glass beat out fellow Libertarian and candidate Jeff Daiell. The Texas Tribune published an article on Sunday about Glass’  victory and her attempt to win over the supporters of Republican candidate Debra Medina, who lost the GOP primary [...]

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A new poll from Public Policy Polling on the Illinois Senatorial contest has been released. The poll chose to include the Democratic, Republican, and Green nominees, but not other nominees who will likely qualify for the ballot. The Green Party nominee, LeAlan Jones, scored 14% in that poll. The poll’s returns are strange–LeAlan Jones scores [...]

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The Libertarian Party of Texas held its state convention last weekend to nominate candidates, revise the platform, and hear speakers. Joining state Republicans and Democrats in the spotlight this weekend, Texas Libertarians gathered Saturday in Austin to announce their own bold aspirations. Libertarian delegates selected Kathie Glass , a 56-year-old attorney from Houston, to run [...]

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The Libertarian Party of Oregon’s State Committee Meeting was held this weekend with the party nominating Wes Wagner, a 33-year-old IT professional, for the Governor’s race. However, the press about the party seems to mostly involve bickering over bylaws. Wagner is also vice chairman of the Libertarian Party, and he’s in the middle of yet [...]

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The Constitution Party of South Dakota recently finished it’s petitioning to get on the ballot and is now prepared to hold its state convention next Saturday. The Constitution Party of South Dakota will hold their annual state convention on June 19 at the Washington Pavilion of Arts and Sciences, 301 S. Main Ave., Sioux Falls. [...]

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Robert Owens is the candidate of the Constitution Party in Ohio for the office of Attorney General. He is speaking to a group called the “9/12 Project” in Cincinnati tomorrow evening. At the invitation of the Cincinnati 912 Project, Robert Owens, candidate for Ohio Attorney General on the Constitutional Party ticket, will speak on the [...]

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Alan Keyes today offered his opinion of sitting Florida Governor and Senatorial candidate, Charlie Crist. It is rare to see the press quoting one third party or independent candidate commenting on another. Best known for his presidential campaigns and his contest with Barack Obama for the U.S. Senate seat in Illinois, Dr. Alan Keyes commented [...]

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Howie Hawkins is a longtime activist in the Green Party, as well as the gubernatorial candidate for the New York Green Party. He seems to be getting a boost from the Socialist Party of New York, too. Syracuse resident Howie Hawkins’ Green Party candidacy for governor is getting a boost from the Socialist Party of [...]

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WorldNetDaily is a popular right-wing news website run by Joseph Farah. The site claims to be an “Independent conservative news website with an emphasis on aggressive investigative reporting”. The website is hosting a cruise in the Caribbean called the “Tea Party at Sea“. Speakers at this tea party include Joseph Farah, Aaron Klein, and David [...]

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Virgil Goode, the former congressman from the Virginia’s 5th District, is a member of both the GOP and the Constitution Party. There was speculation that he might run for Congress in 2010 if Robert Hurt, one of the GOP candidates, won the primary. However, Goode has made it clear that he intends to support Hurt. [...]

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Dan Hamburg is a former Democratic Congressman from California as well as the gubernatorial candidate for the Green Party in 1998. Hamburg ran for Mendocino County Supervisor this year and placed first, with 34%. However, since he did not win a majority, the race is headed for a runoff. The chances for change are slimmer [...]

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Charles Barron is a current New York City Councilman who is dissatisfied with the state of the city’s affairs and with the Democratic Party in general. He says he will run for Governor as a member of a new party, which will be called the New York Freedom Democratic Party. This is an allusion to [...]

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