By Dr. Joseph Kolacinski, an assistant professor in Elmira College’s Department of Mathematics at pressconnects.com: Recently, California passed Proposition 14, replacing the state’s old primary election system with the “top-two” or “jungle” primary. It works like this: There is a single, open primary where every voter chooses among all the candidates. The top two vote-getters [...]

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On The WilderSide: Here’s the message from the Bike4Peace organizers: Dear all, I’d love to be the tour coordinator of this but I’ll be cycling and can’t be. If you want to coordinate the tour while we’re cycling, please let us know. Malik Rahim has already left New Orleans on a separate route. We’ll all [...]

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From the Fog City Journal: Former San Francisco Board of Supervisors President Matt Gonzalez today endorsed community activist Tony Kelly in the race for District 10 Supervisor. In a statement released to Fog City Journal, Gonzalez said, “I am endorsing Tony Kelly because I believe he is an authentic neighborhood leader who has been working [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 23, the Rhode Island Secretary of State used a random procedure to determine the order in which parties would appear on the November 2010 ballot. The Moderate Party will appear first, followed by the Democratic Party, then the Republican Party, then the column for independent candidates. Some Rhode Island towns [...]

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Charlie Dent, the moderate Republican incumbent in Pennsylvania’s 15th District, is pushing for the exclusion of  Independent candidate Jake Towne from all debates. “We don’t think that John Callahan should be afforded the opportunity to hide behind Jake Towne’s presence at any potential debate,” said Shawn Millan, Dent’s campaign manager. “Callahan’s desire to have Towne [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: Last month, Big Business interests shamelessly dealt our already depleted democracy a devastating blow by misleading California voters into approving Proposition 14, without their opponents being able to reach the people with rebuttals. This voter initiative provides that the November elections in that state for members of Congress and state [...]

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Via TPID: From a lengthy guest post at Zero Hedge by Jim Quinn: I’m sorry to be the bearer of bad news. There are no easy solutions. There are only painful, more painful, and really really painful solutions. Both mainstream corrupted political parties have had the chance to put the country back on a prudent [...]

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Posted by David Nolan at LP blog: Nolan interviewed about U.S. Senate bid On Thursday, July 22 I was interviewed, along with the Green candidate for U.S. Senate (Jerry Joslyn -p), by Bill Buckmaster at KUAT-TV in Tucson. The interview is approximately 20 minutes long, and I thought it went well. Check it out! Note: [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Next weekend, the Illinois Green Party will kick off its annual state convention, designed to draw not only party members, but interested outsiders, independent thinkers and those who want a break from the corrupt two-party system. HIGHLIGHTS: Saturday Keynote: RICH WHITNEY, candidate for Governor Sunday Keynote: LEALAN JONES, candidate for U.S. Senate A “Campaign School” for those [...]

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From Counterpunch (read the full thing here): There seems to be agreement on all points on the political spectrum that our current elected government doesn’t really represent the American public. Whether this relates to the fact that they are elected by a mere 30% of eligible adults is hotly debated on the left… In my [...]

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From Twitter and polling to unfortunate family activities, an update on recent activities of the Horner campaign.

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Recent polling from Survey USA shows no minor party or independent candidates in serious contention in the polled Virginia races, but several are in high single or low double digits.

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Bob Unruh in World Net Daily: In a Fox News appearance, NAACP officer Hilary Shelton accused the (tea) party of sheltering those who are “tied to the Nazi party.” They are, he said, “making their home with the tea party.” The NAACP passed a resolution at their national convention in Kansas City calling for tea [...]

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Charles Crumm in the Daily Tribune: Local tea party groups headed to Lansing today to oppose a group called Tea Party that is trying to gain political party status on the November ballot. In an e-mail Thursday, the Lakes Area Tea Party in Oakland County urged its supporters to join the 9 a.m. rally before [...]

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Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: Among the limited duties of the US Government enumerated in the federal Constitution is Article. IV. Section. 4. “The United States shall guarantee to every State in this Union a Republican Form of Government, and shall protect each of them against Invasion.” However, for several decades now, the federal government in [...]

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David O. Williams in the Colorado Independent: It’s been a flip-flop-athon of late on the campaign trail, and former Republican congressman Tom Tancredo’s been the root cause of most of the recent reversals. First Colorado Republican Party legal counsel Ryan Call told the Denver Post his party was pursuing legal options to keep Tancredo off [...]

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Libertarian Party blog links and excerpts From Students for Liberty: Is “Conservative” a Dirty Word? by Clark Ruper The relationship between libertarians and conservatives has been a hot topic lately.  The latest edition of Reason Magazine features the debate Where Do Libertarians Belong? between Brink Lindsey (Cato), Jonah Goldberg (National Review), and Matt Kibbe (FreedomWorks).  [...]

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From the Portland Press Herald by way of TPID: Poll results released Monday on this year’s race for governor show small declines for the two major-party candidates and a surge for independent Eliot Cutler. Republican Paul LePage, the mayor of Waterville, still leads the pack, with 39 percent support. He is followed by Senate President [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Working Families Party has been circulating a petition to place its statewide nominees on the Connecticut ballot, and has over 9,000 signatures. The deadline is in early August and 7,500 valid signatures are needed. The Working Families Party’s statewide nominees are the same individuals as the Democratic Party nominees. Because the [...]

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Ballot Access News: On July 22, independent candidate Ieshuh Griffin filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court in Milwaukee, over the state elections office refusal to print her partisan label on the November ballot. She is running for Assembly, 10th district, and wants “Not the ‘whiteman’s bitch’ ” on the ballot. The state elections office [...]

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