The Maine Green Party is not running a candidate in the gubernatorial race this year. However, that is not stopping the party from influencing the outcome.

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From the McCook Daily Gazette: The Libertarian Party of Nebraska has been recognized as an official political party in Nebraska, according to Secretary of State John Gale. The designation means that individuals can affiliate with the party as registered voters and the party can nominate candidates for partisan offices, Gale said. The party gained official [...]

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Each month, PublicPolicyPolling polls the 2012 presidential race. While they have included Ron Paul, a sitting Republican Congressman and the 1988 Libertarian presidential nominee, for some time in their polls of the Republican primary, this is the first in time in a long while that a pollster has tested Dr. Paul’s odds as an independent. [...]

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The Minnesota Independence Party held a primary on August 10th.  While the party has candidates for many offices,  only the gubernatorial race had more than one candidate seeking the nomination. The MN Secretary of State’s website provides the results: Tom Horner /James Mulder – 11395 – 64.27% Rob Hahn / Thomas Harens – 2538 – [...]

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The Colorado Libertarian held a primary on August 10th. This is the first year that the LP of Colorado held a statewide primary. There were three contested races for the nominations to US Senate, Governor, and 1st congressional district. The results are provided below, with victors listed first. Governor: Jaimes Brown – 62% Dan “Kilo” [...]

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Illinois Treasurer Candidate Scott Summers made headlines on Wednesday in the Daily Herald, a newspaper centered on the suburbs of Chicago. He is the nominated candidate for the Green Party, which made Major Party status in 2006. In it, Summers makes suggestions about trimming education costs. A former McHenry County College trustee, now a Green [...]

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The America First Party sends along the following: Friends, This evening, the America First National Committee adopted three important resolutions. They may be seen by clicking on the indicated links: Resolution Remembering Tom White: http://www.americafirstparty.org/resolutions/comm_08_10_2010_twhite.shtml Resolution of the National Committee To Condemn any Unlawful and Improper Attack upon Iran: http://www.americafirstparty.org/resolutions/comm_08_10_2010_iran.shtml Resolution On Extrajudicial Executions http://www.americafirstparty.org/resolutions/comm_08_10_2010_execute.shtml [...]

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The Constitution Party affiliated “faction” (for lack of a better term) of the California American Independent Party sends along the following announcement: The original and authentic American Independent Party of California, founded in 1967, chaired by Jim King and affiliated with the national Constitution Party, is pleased to announce that the 2010 State Convention and [...]

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The staff of The State, a South Carolina newspaper, recently spoke with Green US Senate candidate Tom Clements. From the article: “I do intend to focus on DeMint,” Clements said. “But I think it’s incumbent upon Alvin to present his positions and his views, and I will address them as necessary. “I’m not leveling my [...]

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From the SF Weekly Blog: ​A proposal to make large quantities of biodiesel fuel in San Francisco has sparked opposition from the city’s Green Party. The Greens assert the fuel — which is in vogue as an eco-friendly alternative to traditional fossil fuels — actually harms the environment… Eric Brooks, chairman of the Green Party’s [...]

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With the entrance of Tom Tancredo into the Colorado gubernatorial race as the Constitution Party candidate, pundits have suddenly turned their attention to potential solutions to “vote-splitting”. We recently reported about the preferred solution for Colorado LP candidate Jaimes Brown. However, Eric Fried, the Secretary of the Colorado Green Party suggest a different reform: How [...]

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So claims the Pittsburgh Post Gazette:  …in this year’s race for governor, the lineup of candidates who have apparently qualified for the ballot suggests a scenario that could, in a tight race, hurt the Republican front-runner, Attorney General Tom Corbett. In addition to his Democratic opponent, Allegheny County Executive Dan Onorato, the ballot will include Marakay [...]

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From Ballot Access News: James Island, South Carolina, held town elections on August 3.  Bill Woolsey, a member of the Libertarian Party, won the non-partisan Mayoral election.  He is an economics professor at the Citadel, and he had also been elected to the town council in 2002. The election of Woolsey was a surprise.  Five [...]

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From Third Party and Independent Daily: Jaimes Brown is the Libertarian candidate for governor of Colorado. He is an outspoken advocate of electoral and political reform, and one of the few candidates for elected office who calls for the implementation of approval voting in the United States. I recently contacted Mr. Brown via email and [...]

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Poli-Tea: A lengthy article at Smart Politics reports that this year we are likely to witness the strongest showing by third party and independent candidates for office since the 1930′s. Some excerpts: A Smart Politics analysis of nearly 1,800 gubernatorial elections since 1900 finds that third party candidates in 2010 will rival those of 1994 [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: The Green Party of Canada has recruited recently retired Montreal Canadiens hockey player Georges Laraque to be Deputy Leader, replacing the recently departed Jacques Rivard. “It’s because he has just a tremendous following,” she [Elizabeth May] said by phone from Vancouver. “People know him as an NHL player and [...]

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From the Constitution Party of Washington State via THIRD PARTY AND INDEPENDENT DAILY: HOBSON’S CHOICE (from the Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary): 1. an apparently free choice when there is no alternative; 2. the necessity of accepting one of two equally objectionable alternatives. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, Thomas Hobson worked as a licensed [...]

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By Ralph Nader at Nader.org: You can’t make up the following realities in New York State! Note the following series of events driven by the preposterous plutocrats and see if you get steamed. Greed, power, reckless speculation and theft of other peoples’ money by Wall Streeters collapsed the U.S. economy into a deep recession that [...]

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By Schalk Leonard: Citizens, Lovers of Liberty, Washingtonians: My name is Schalk Leonard, candidate for U.S. Senate in Washington State. As I campaign and speak to voters, people occasionally ask me: “Why no party preference?” This is a valid question. We are accustomed to candidates aligning themselves with a party. Political parties have served a [...]

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H/T Doug Craig: Sharon Rondeau at The Post and Email: MR. SWENSSON: He has never made any statement other than to say that he saw the Factcheck.org “birth certificate” and he’s satisfied that Obama is a natural born Citizen. I’ve never gotten anything more than that from Mr. Isakson; neither have any of the people [...]

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