Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: ATLANTA, GA – October 25, 2010 – Chuck Donovan, Libertarian candidate for U.S Senate from Georgia, participated last night in the only debate incumbent Republican Senator Johnny Isakson decided to include in his campaign schedule. The Atlanta Press Club-sponsored debate was televised live from the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios in [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Although the Connecticut Green Party has no candidate for governor this year and is running a write-in campaign for US Senate, CT Green candidates running for a variety of statewide, congressional, legislative and local seats have been steadily making news. Here are some recent stories: CT News Junkie: Nader [...]

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Ballot Access News: This SurveyUSA poll for the statewide races in Georgia shows Libertarian nominee John Monds at 8%. It also shows the Libertarian nominee for State Schools Superintendent at 10%. Thanks to Art DiBianca for the link. And from a press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Libertarian Candidate has strong showing! The race for Georgia’s [...]

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Email from Steve Hoodjer to contact.ipr@gmail.com: On Saturday, October 23, Iowa Public Television hosted a debate among all three candidates for Secretary of State. Libertarian Jake Porter debated with the Democrat incumbent Michael Mauro and Republican challenger Matt Schulz, a lawyer and Council Bluffs city councilman. Porter is the only mid-major party candidate for statewide [...]

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In the race for Governor of New York (which has been a hot topic at IPR in the past week or two), there was only one debate that featured all the candidates, which has received a great deal of attention far outside New York State. The only other debate of any kind in this race [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: LUTZ, FL. October 26, 2010. The Libertarian Reform Caucus Political Action Committee (LRC PAC) announced today that it is ceasing operations. In addition, LRC PAC further announced that it will donate the balance of its funds to the Libertarian National Committee (LNC) and the Libertarian National Congressional Committee (LNCC). The LRC PAC [...]

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Damon Eris at Poli-Tea: In every election, among those who cast their ballots for the candidates of the Democratic and Republican parties, there are no doubt a large percentage who do so against their better judgment and even against their own will.  These voters go by many names.  Sometimes they are called defensive voters, who [...]

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Ballot Access News: On October 25, the California State Court of Appeals issued a ruling in Keyes v Bowen, C062321, holding that state elections officials are not supposed to keep presidential candidates off the general election ballot because they may not meet the constitutional qualifications to hold the office. The lawsuit had been filed in [...]

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Email from Jeff Vanke to contact.ipr.gmail.com: On today’s CNN.com, here, Jeff Vanke’s campaign and his balanced budget are featured in a story on independent candidates in 2010. – Jeff Vanke for Congress, Independent, 6th District of Virginia 1007 1st Street SW, Suite D, Roanoke, VA 24016 (540) 915-3786 www.JeffVanke.com Excerpt from that story: (L)et’s break [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Candidates in Crucial Race for Florida’s 8th Congressional District to Meet for Debate on Oct. 27 “Showdown on the I-4 Corridor” will be last chance to see candidates in joint appearance before election Orlando, Fla. (Oct. 8, 2010) – Candidates in the hotly contested race for Florida’s 8th Congressional District seat will [...]

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From their website: Socialist candidate for Governor decries privatization drive in public schools Stop the race to the bottom! Carlos Alvarez is the Peace and Freedom candidate running for Calif. Governor. He is also a member of the Party for Socialism and Liberation. Carlos Alvarez, a socialist candidate for Calif. Governor, demands the immediate end [...]

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PSLweb.org: By: Doug Kaufmann ‘Stand up and fight back!’ On Nov. 13 and 14 in Los Angeles, hundreds of people from all over the country and the world will converge on the University of Southern California campus for a National Conference on Socialism.  2008 Conference on Socialism The Party for Socialism and Liberation has worked [...]

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Via Jim Galloway at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The three candidates for U.S. Senate had their one and only debate Sunday night. Given the current political climate, exchanges between Republican incumbent Johnny Isakson and Democrat Michael Thurmond were remarkably civil. The only harsh notes of discord in the Atlanta Press Club debate were struck by Chuck [...]

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New poll today at LP.org (open for voting): What is the main reason you are voting Libertarian this fall?: -Democrats have failed to end the wars. -I’m opposed to the new health care plan. -Republicans talk small government but deliver the opposite. -We need a change from the status quo in Washington. -I almost always [...]

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Email from Randall Hayes to conatct.ipr@gmail.com: WRKF, the NPR affiliate in Baton Rouge, offered five minutes of unedited airtime to each of the twelve candidates in Louisiana’s U.S. Senate race. Seven of those candidates accepted the offer and their addresses were broadcast over the last several days. Each weekday morning, a different candidate’s address was [...]

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From the campaign website of Warren Redlich, Libertarian for Governor of New York, at http://wredlich.com/ny/: Daily Gazette Debates boost local governor candidate Monday, October 25, 2010 By Justin Mason (Contact) Gazette Reporter ALBANY — Prior to the first gubernatorial debates, few people outside of the Capital Region knew who Warren Redlich was or that he [...]

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From Nate Silver at FiveThirtyEight via TPID: The other state with a new leader is Rhode Island, where Lincoln Chafee, the former Republican senator who is running as an independent, has pulled ahead of the Democrat Frank T. Caprio on the strength of a Rasmussen Reports poll that gives him a 7-point lead.

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Ballot Access News: On October 25, Ralph Nader released this statement: “Christina Tobin as Secretary of State of California will give more voices and choices to millions of California voters who think the ‘two-party dictatorship’ is monopolizing the ballot line against third party and independent candidates.” Tobin is on the California ballot as the Libertarian [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: A University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, released October 25, shows these results for Governor: Republican Rick Perry 50%, Democrat Bill White 40%, Libertarian Kathie Glass 8%, Green Party nominee Deb Shafto 2%. There are no undecideds, because if a respondent first said “Undecided”, the pollster then encouraged the respondent to say [...]

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From Andy Greenberg at Forbes: via TPID: That, at least, is the vision of some members of Pirate Parties International (PPI). PPI serves as an umbrella organization for intellectual property reform-focused ”Pirate Parties” around the world, which until April included PiratPartiet, the Swedish Pirate Party with ties to the peer-to-peer site the Pirate Bay and whistle-blower [...]

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