Ballot Access News: There is at least one Libertarian on the ballot across the U.S, in areas containing 81.9% of the voters, for the November 2010 election. The Libertarian Party, as is usual in midterm years, is on the ballot in more places than any other minor party. For 2010, the equivalent percentages for other [...]

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Ballot Access News: Donn Esmonde, long-serving political columnist for the Buffalo News (Buffalo’s only daily newspaper) has this column about the New York gubernatorial debate of October 18. The column suggests that Warren Redlich, the Libertarian nominee, had the best performance of any of the seven candidates. Previously at IPR: Think 3 Institute: Turning Inclusive [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: On Monday October 18 Green Change issued a press release entitled “Green candidates call for end of corporate personhood” announcing that 110 Green Party candidates nationwide are calling for a “Green New Deal” to end the legal doctrine of corporate personhood, which grants corporations constitutional rights that had previously [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Even after Illinois Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney got over 10% of the vote in 2006 and established the Green Party as a major party under Illinois law, the Illinois League of Women Voters is refusing to let Whitney debate the Republican and Democratic candidates in Chicago on [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The City Wire reports on a new poll including Arkansas Green Party candidates Jim Lendall for governor and John Gray for US Senate: In the U.S. Senate race, Boozman’s margin over incumbent U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln has shrunk to 13 points as he now holds a 49-36% lead. Independent [...]

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Samuel Wilson at Think 3 Institute: The aftermath of Monday’s inclusive New York gubernatorial debate, which spotlighted all seven candidates who’ll appear on the November ballot, raises questions about the need for balance between inclusiveness and seriousness. The talk of the night and day after the debate, when not focused on the two major-party candidates, [...]

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Posted at peaceandfreedom.org: Every four years, the League of Women Voters and the California Channel on cable TV collaborate on the production of a series of interviews with candidates for statewide office, the Board of Equalization, and the appellate courts. This year’s effort is called Cable’s Free Airtime Project 2010. These interviews are posted online [...]

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Originally posted on Green Party Watch: The Madison Capital Times has endorsed Wisconsin Green Party candidate for 77th District State Representative Ben Manski in an article entitled “Renew progressive tradition: Elect Ben Manski”: Ben Manski first made a name for himself campaigning for economic and social justice causes as a student at West High School. [...]

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Farid Khavari, independent candidate for governor of Florida, began airing his campaign’s first radio ads today: The campaign issued a press release to accompany the ad, as follows: KHAVARI CAMPAIGN LAUNCHES RADIO WAR ON (ECONOMIC) TERROR “Rick Scott’s company stole over a billion dollars from taxpayers,” a female voice says from the speaker of a [...]

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Last week at Third Party and Independent Daily, I published a lengthy three-part interview with Darcy Richardson.  Darcy is a veteran independent political activist, a historian of the third party and independent political tradition in the United States, and a candidate for Lieutenant Governor of Florida, running on the Independent gubernatorial ticket of economist and [...]

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The Daily Beast has posted a video from the 2010 Hofstra NY Governor Debate with highlights of Jimmy McMillan’s comments. The video now shows as having 1,086,121 views since the debate Monday evening.

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Wes Benedict at Libertarian Party blog, October 3: Libertarian Party executive director Wes Benedict waves anti-war sign at One Nation March in Washington, DC. Many Democratic supporters were there, and this was meant to remind them about the hypocrisy of Democrats in office.  

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David Nolan at LP blog, October 3: Two very informal, unscientific straw polls taken in the last week indicate that my campaign for U.S. Senate has the potential to take off in a big way if we can come up with significant funding. In the online survey taken by KTVK-3 one week ago, during and [...]

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Posted by Mark Hinkle at LP blog on October 4: Opinion: Tahoe needs to have more control, TRPA less by Steve Kubby www.laketahoenews.net/2010/10/opinion-tahoe-needs-to-have-more-control-trpa-less/ Steve Kubby, former Libertarian Party candidate for Governor in California, and contender for the LP’s 2008 presidential nomination is running for South Lake Tahoe City council.  Recent polls show him in the [...]

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This is from two weeks ago. I did not have enough internet access to post articles at that time. -p Dear Friend of Liberty, We’re entering the peak month of election activity. The time to act is now! So far we’ve bought 700,000 Quiz Across America door hangers, shipped almost 400,000 to volunteers, and used [...]

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Press release at GP.org: In Illinois race for the US Senate, Green candidate LeAlan Jones wins a debate from which he was excluded: SC Green Tom Clements challenges Sen. Jim DeMint’s refusal to debate; Calif. Green Laura Wells arrested for entering the gubernatorial debate site Video downloads and campaign news: Green candidates in debates http://www.gp.org/candidates/debates.php [...]

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Rich Whitney, Green party candidate for governor, will appear on MSNBC this Wednesday, October 20th at 1:15pm Central Time.

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Posted by Daniel Wiener at LP blog, Oct. 5: The John & Ken talk radio show on KFI-AM 640 in the Los Angeles area has endorsed Dale Ogden, the Libertarian Party candidate for Governor, over Democrat Jerry Brown and Republican Meg Whitman.  For those who are not familiar with John & Ken, they are an [...]

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Posted by Rachel Hawkridge at LP blog on October 9: I’m sure that most of you have heard of the Free State Project, of FreeKeene.com, and PorcFest.    You may not have heard of John Babiarz, of FreeGrafton.com, and the Merrimack Valley Porcupines.   I visited Keene last Wednesday for “nightcap” on the Commons.  It [...]

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Staff at Libertarian Party blog, October 7: Project Vote Smart, a voter education organization that publishes candidate answers to its position questionnaires, has a new feature called "VoteEasy" that allows voters to see which candidates have expressed positions most similar to their own views. VoteEasy A number of Libertarian candidates are included. VoteEasy currently appears [...]

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