From a letter to the editor of Oregon Live via TPID: I became convinced several years ago that the only hope for our current system to accomplish anything is to form a viable third party out of the middle and let the current parties have the radicals from the fringes. With the independents and unaffiliated [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Connecticut U.S. Senate candidate John Mertens has endorsed Independent Party gubernatorial candidate Tom Marsh. “Tom Marsh has been honest about the huge challenges facing Connecticut in regards to the budget shortfall, and the sacrifices that will be necessary,” said Mertens. “His honest assessment demonstrates the need for another round of direct federal [...]

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By Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: Let me ask readers a question. What’s more important: freedom and its undergirding principles, or the entity meant to protect it? A word of caution: be careful how you answer that question, because the way you answer marks your understanding (or lack thereof) of both freedom and the purpose of [...]

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From The Business Word. H/T Cody Quirk: …David Flaherty, president and CEO of Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, a Louisville, CO, pollster that works for Republicans around the country. In a phone interview, Flaherty said polls that show John Hickenlooper winning the gubernatorial race are using demographics and turnout numbers that incorrectly skew their results [...]

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Mike Gravel came in fourth in delegate votes for the Libertarian Party presidential nomination in 2008, behind Bob Barr, Mary Ruwart and Wayne Root. Before that, he ran in Democratic Party primaries for President that same year, and served as a Democratic US Senator from Alaska from 1969 to 1981. Accoring to wikipedia, As Senator, [...]

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Posted on the campaign website of Warren Redlich, Libertarian for Governor of New York: You have told terrible lies about my husband. You have hurt me and my family. I have suffered anxiety and heartache. You have made me fear for the safety of my children in our own home. I am the type of [...]

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Staff at LP blog: Lon Cecil is running for U.S. Representative in North Carolina District 12. The Rhino Times, a weekly newspaper in Greensboro, recommends a vote for Cecil in its October 28 issue. Read the article.

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Wes Benedict at LP blog: Michael Shanklin, Political Director for the LP North Carolina:   Platform in Spanish here.

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Staff at LP blog: Julie Fox is running for Illinois State Controller. She has been endorsed by Tom Roeser, Chairman of the Editorial Board of the Chicago Daily Observer. Roeser writes, “She’s a very bright CPA without a partisan axe to grind who passionately believes in latch-key abstemious government leading to a consolidation for efficiency [...]

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Staff at LP blog: The folks at Project Vote Smart recently told us, "…we wanted to let you know that your candidates have demonstrated significantly more political courage than both the Republican and Democratic candidates for Congress." According to Project Vote Smart, the average response rate for congressional candidates this year is 38%, while the [...]

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H/T Aaron Hamlin in comments on a previous IPR post, Knott clarifies Democrat Mailer on his behalf: The Indiana Democratic Party has sent out a mailer claiming Greg “No Bull” Knott is the only true conservative in the 9th District Congressional race. The mailer highlights Knott’s commitment to job growth through tax reform, ending bailouts, [...]

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Via facebook from Libertarian Warren Redlich for New York Governor: Election day is almost here. Please keep spreading the word. One of the best ways to do that is posting our campaign videos on your friends’ web pages. Here are the three videos that (according to YouTube stats) do particularly well: Our TV Commercial: Our [...]

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The latest updates at http://www.modernwhig.org/: OCT 29, 2010 Whig National Chairman Andrew Evans to lead DC-area “Whigs at the Rally to Restore Sanity” on October 30, 2010. Please download our information page handout to distribute at the event. OCT 27, 2010 Roanoke, Virginia (October 27, 2010) Independent candidate Jeff Vanke running under the banner of [...]

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This event was yesterday. Previous IPR coverage here. http://ppok.us/?page_id=87: “There was of course no way of knowing whether you were being watched at any given moment. How often, or on what system, the Thought Police plugged in on any individual wire was guesswork. It was even conceivable that they watched everybody all the time. But [...]

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Posted at www.nader.org by Ralph Nader: It was Bill Clinton’s campaign strategist, James Carville, who in 1992 created the election slogan: “It’s the Economy, Stupid.” For the 2010 Congressional campaigns, the slogan should have been: “It’s Corporate Crime and Control, Stupid.” But notwithstanding the latest corporate crime wave, the devastating fallout on workers, investors and [...]

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A general question for all our readers: what results do you predict in this Tuesday’s elections? Your replies can cover any state, all alternative party and independent candidates, ballot propositions, and, since Wayne Root opened the door, feel free to prognosticate the Democrats’ and Republicans’ chances as well. Have at ‘em in the comments, but [...]

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Press release from Free and Equal, October 28: SAN FRANCISCO – Today, an additional two groups and nine individuals have joined eight very diverse groups and political parties who, last week, signed on to a coalition strongly in support of Proposition 19, the initiative to legalize, tax and regulate cannabis throughout California. Marijuana Policy Project [...]

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H/T Gene Berkman: Michael Blood writes in the San Francisco Chronicle/Associated Press: Choosing “none of the above,” the default option on quizzes, is looming as a potential factor in the dead-heat Nevada Senate race for voters who don’t like either Democrat Harry Reid or Republican Sharron Angle. Voters in the Silver State have nine choices [...]

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On October 29, 2010, the California Secretary of State released new registration data, as of October 18. All political parties — except the Democratic Party — increased their share of registered voters.

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Time for Pizza: Celebrity Endorsements: The Libertarian: More at http://www.youtube.com/user/IrvineforCongress

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