Forrest Claypool is an independent candidate for Assessor in Cook County, Illinois. He currently sits on the Cook County Board of Commissioners as an independent. Claypool recently submitted 90,000 petition signatures and reveals in a recent editorial for the Huffington Post that he has qualified for the ballot. Many Americans have been enthralled by the [...]

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The Socialist Workers Party is one of the most active socialist parties in the United States. Richard Winger brings to our attention news of the Socialist Workers Party’s candidate for public office in 2010. The party expects to be on the statewide ballot in Iowa.  It also expects to be on the ballot for one [...]

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At USA Today, Susan Page reports that “independents are gaining favor in governors’ races” in the northeast. The article focuses exclusively on the candidacies of Eliot Cutler in Maine, Tim Cahill in Massachusetts and Lincoln Chafee in Rhode Island, and devotes the most attention to Republican-turned-Independent Chafee. Page writes: Gubernatorial candidates Cutler, Chafee and Tim [...]

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