Sarah Foster published this piece on Chelene Nightingale’s “Save California” walk at News With Views. I found it reposted at the Constitution Party website. It was an exhausting eight days, but California gubernatorial candidate Chelene Nightingale, the American Independent/Constitution Party’s nominee, and her campaign team beat the odds, arriving at the state capital mid-afternoon Friday, [...]

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There has simply been a flurry of news out of the Georgia Libertarian Party lately. To nicely cap off the sudden surge of articles, we report another set of polls taken of the gubernatorial and senatorial contests in the state. In the race for governor the results were: Deal (R) 42% Barnes (D) 42% Mondes [...]

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A new poll was recently conducted for a local newspaper by Muhlenberg College on the race to represent the 15th congressional district of Pennsylvania. Here are some of the relevant facts concerning the poll and the Independent candidate in the race, Jake Towne. Jake Towne takes 3% of the vote in the race, with 49% for [...]

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Megan Cassano got a mention in a newspaper article about the race: Megan Cassano, 30, is running on the Green Party line for the second consecutive year. Cassano is a social worker, who said she deals with people every day with serious childhood and adolescent issues. “I want to make a difference in (children’s) lives in [...]

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From the Cleveland Plain-Dealer: CLEVELAND, Ohio — David Ellison helped the Green Party reach a milestone last week by running unopposed in the primary for Cuyahoga County executive. The architect from Cleveland’s Ohio City neighborhood gave the political party its first candidate for countywide office after it struggled for years to gain ballot access. Ellison’s [...]

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Pundits cannot seem to stop talking about the Tea Party movement in America. Is the urge to take up a pitchfork against a vague establishment and fiscal waste going international?

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John Monds was recently interviewed for an article in the AJC. This is also the same newspaper for which former Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr blogs. Some relevant excerpts: Q: What is a Libertarian? A: The easiest and shortest definition is someone with a fundamental respect for the rights of individuals. Q: Wouldn’t Republicans and Democrats [...]

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Find out what’s new in Eliot Cutler’s Independent campaign for Governor of Maine.

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A majority of Americans think the country needs real, viable alternatives to the Democratic and Republican parties, according to a new NYT/CBS poll. Only 42% of respondents expressed support for the current two-party state and duopoly system of government.  From the most recent NYT/CBS News poll: Amid disapproval of the major political parties, the percentage [...]

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From the Post and Courier: Tom Clements works full time as the Friends of the Earth’s Southeastern nuclear campaign coordinator and is running for the U.S. Senate in his spare time. He portrays himself as a serious candidate trying to give voice to those who often aren’t — and an alternative for Democrats unhappy with [...]

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In contrast to the Arkansas Green Party’s high poll numbers in a few other statewide races, their candidate for governor Jim Lendall is at 2 percent support in a new poll: In the governor’s race, results showed Beebe leading Keet, 54 percent to 33 percent, with 2 percent favoring Green Party candidate Jim Lendall and [...]

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A letter to the editor from the Daily Herald in suburban Chicago: In my whole life I have always voted for the person and the platform, certainly not just the party. In recent years, however, I haven’t been pleased with many of our elected officials and particularly not the actions of the Republican and Democratic [...]

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This interesting news comes from a press release, via TBD.com: This is not George Clooney’s big screen production, but Alexandria’s truly bi-partisan Port City Playhouse’s stage production of Farragut North by Beau Willimon Directed by former Fairfax County RNC Chair Eddie Page.Set in the days leading up to a Democratic caucus battle in Iowa, Farragut [...]

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This Monday, the 20th, at 8 PM EST I will be interviewing the Independent Green Party of Virginia’s candidate for US Congress Gail “for Rail” Parker in the first congressional district on IPR’s blogtalkradio channel.  The Independent Greens are the state affiliate of the Independence Party.  Submit any questions you might have in the comments. [...]

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The interview also includes some of Cobb’s thoughts on the Green Party and a referendum in Florida.  From Creativing Loafing (the unedited interview can be read here): CL: Tell us about the push to get a constitutional amendment passed to address the issue of corporations. David Cobb: Let’s begin by acknowledging that people from across [...]

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In the now daily Early Morning Candidate News Roundup [EMCNR], we learn about the latest in state Treasurer and Independent Tim Cahill’s gubernatorial campaign in Massachusetts.

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From Jim Galloway at the Atlanta-Journal Constitution website: Chuck Donovan, the Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, on Wednesday won the endorsement of political activist Joe McCutchen of Elijay, who has a weekly cable TV talk show that covers much of north Georgia, and can often be heard on radio talk shows across the state. From the [...]

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An interesting article from Der Spiegel about a combination of news on the Green front, particularly their polling as high as 20 percent nationwide while, at the same time, launching anti-nuclear protests that could ruin their chances of a coalition with the party in power now: The good news for Germany’s Green Party just keeps [...]

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The following video was sent out in an email to supporters, along with a fundraising message that appears below: We are so close to the debates, we can feel it. The latest poll puts LeAlan Jones at 9%. He needs 10% to get into the ABC 7 debate and blow this whole race wide open. Can you [...]

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Rich Whitney’s Illinois gubernatorial campaign appears dangerously perched on the brink of disaster.

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