Erick Erickson, the editor of RedState.com and a conservative commentator for CNN, has a new book coming out. Here he gives us a sample of what to expect. He doesn’t have much good to say about the two major parties, but dismisses third parties out of hand. They’re all terrible. All of them. Democrats. Republicans. The so [...]

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The Public Policy Institute of California will be co-sponsoring a future gubernatorial debate, and has a stated policy of only inviting candidates who demonstrate at least 10% support in a neutral poll to such an event. In order to provide for this, earlier this month the group polled the gubernatorial and senate races and included [...]

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens begins thus: IT WAS the best of times, it was the worst of times, it was the age of wisdom, it was the age of foolishness, it was the epoch of belief, it was the epoch of incredulity, it was the season of Light, it was the [...]

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From the Australian Sex Party newsletter: Sex Party welcomes national sex and morality debate with Family First: “We’re Ready When You Are!” Appearing on national television Thursday morning for a panel discussion regarding the sexual politics of the upcoming federal election, Australian Sex Party President and Victorian Senate Candidate Fiona Patten welcomed the idea of [...]

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From The Day by way of Third Party and Independent Daily: Scott Deshefy, the Green Party candidate running for Congress in the 2nd District, issued a statement on Wednesday criticizing the district’s representative, Democrat Joe Courtney, for voting against a resolution to pull American troops out of Pakistan. The Green Party had urged Congress to [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Statement by Attorney Gautam Dutta in response to Governor Schwarzenegger and Lieutenant Governor Maldonado’s attacks on the SB 6 / Prop 14 lawsuit. “Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger and Lieutenant Governor Abel Maldonado’s joint attacks on the SB 6 lawsuit are baseless attempts to deviate attention from the real issues at hand. [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: SACRAMENTO, Calif. – As reported in the San Jose Mercury News Thursday, July 29, a lawsuit was filed charging that state Senate Bill 6 is unconstitutional. SB 6 is the legislation that put Proposition 14, the Top Two election system, on the June 8 California ballot. Specifically, the lawsuit claims [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Michigan Tea Party (the ballot-qualified party), which most observers feel is an insincere party artificially created by Democrats, recently nominated 23 candidates. But two of them will not appear on the ballot because they are under age 21. The Michigan Constitution requires legislators to be age 21 or older. See this [...]

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Ballot Access News: The July 30 Buffalo News has this confusing story, which seems to say that if Carl Paladino loses the New York Republican gubernatorial primary on September 14, he will still be listed on the November ballot as the nominee of his new Taxpayers Party. But, if he loses the Republican primary, he [...]

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Ballot Access News: On June 30, the U.S. Justice Department said that the Department has decided not to take a position in the pending lawsuit Libertarian Party v District of Columbia Board of Elections, now pending in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C. The case challenges the practice of the Board of Elections to not [...]

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Posted at Conservative Heritage Times: Dear Conservative, As a longtime partner with me in the battle to secure our nation’s borders and stop the scourge of illegal immigration, I want you to be among the first to know that this week I filed my papers as a candidate for governor of Colorado. I am running [...]

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David Josue, a Cynthia McKinney supporter, sends out organizing message to Green Party grassroots as 2008 Green Party candidate Cynthia McKinney participates in national Bike4Peace trip.

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From The Denver Daily News, via Poli-Tea: There’s at least one gubernatorial candidate happy to see Tom Tancredo enter the race for governor as a third-party candidate, and we’re not talking about Democratic candidate John Hickenlooper. Libertarian candidate Jaimes Brown welcomes Tancredo into the race “with open arms.” . . . Brown believes Tancredo’s run [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Durango Herald has an interview with Colorado Green Party US Senate candidate Bob Kinsey: A veteran, an ordained minister, a peace activist and a retired school teacher, Denver resident Bob Kinsey isn’t a typical politician. He’s never been elected to office, but that didn’t stop him from making [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: After the Arkansas Green Party nominating convention on July 24th, Arkansas Green candidates have been appearing regularly in the news. Here are a few recent articles: Arkansas News: Green Party candidate launches campaign for state treasurer The Log Cabin Democrat: Conway man chosen to represent Green Party on November [...]

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On The Wilder Side: The only way that the Green Party can regain ballot status in NY is to get 50,000 votes for their Governor candidate in 2010. This opportunity comes only once every four years, and it only applies to the Governor’s race. Gaining ballot status will enable the Green Party to run more [...]

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Press release from July 15. As far as I can tell we missed it at the time. Warwick–As of 2:30pm this afternoon, Moderate Party Gubernatorial Candidate, Ken Block, has confirmed that he will appear on the ballot this November. The Block campaign spoke with the Secretary of State’s office who confirmed the count of 1,046 [...]

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Liberty Maven: Originally published July 30, 2010 here http://towneforcongress.com/economy/jake-towne-calls-on-charlie-dent-to-repeal-health-care-tax/ Independent congressional candidate Jake Towne issued this statement today: “During his sorry 20-year political career, Charlie Debt has repeatedly supported unconstitutional legislation that has created raging, out-of-control deficits. He also supports vast expansions of federal control over the people’s healthcare, such as his support of S-CHIP, [...]

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Ballot Access News: James Traficant, a former Democratic member of Congress from Ohio, attempted to run this year as an independent candidate for U.S. House in Ohio’s 17th district. However, he was told that he needed 2,199 valid signatures, and after his petition was checked, he was told that he only had 2092 valid signatures. [...]

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From the Oklahoma Pirate Party blog via Third Party and Independent Daily: Today Democrats and Republicans across Oklahoma are turning to the polls to pick the candidates for their respective parties. Democrats pick Democrats, Republicans pick Republicans, and everybody else is well aware that they are not welcome. Oklahoma suffers from the horrible combination of [...]

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