By AuMass at Gold Mass Group: CD-3 Patrick Barron got 4% in a 3-way CD-5 State Committee member Bob Clark got 1% in a four way. He faced among others a classic tea party opponent who advocated war with Mexico – ‘send the army to occupy Northern Mexico’. State Representative races State Committee member Jon [...]
Gold Mass Group: ‘Massachusetts Libertarians Advance’
November 4th, 2010 · 5 Comments
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Libertarian election results for Georgia
November 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
Libertarian election results for Georgia, along with larger party vote totals, found at Crazy for Liberty: 2010 Elections results from ajc.com and WSB-TV Agriculture Commissioner Candidate Votes Gary Black – R 1,396,050 56% J.B. Powell – D 996,077 40% Kevin Cherry – L 89,477 4% Updated Nov-03-2010 07:47 AM 100% reporting (2902 of 2902 precincts) [...]
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Libertarian Party of Indiana Maintains Ballot Access for Four More Years
November 4th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Press release from LPIN HQ emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: The Libertarian Party of Indiana Maintains Ballot Access for Four More Years The Libertarian Party of Indiana will maintain ballot access for four more years because of their achievement of six percent in the Secretary of State race. Libertarian Mike Wherry earned 100,847 votes which is the [...]
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Rachel Hawkridge Removed from Libertarian National Convention Oversight, Alleges It Was Unjust
November 4th, 2010 · 134 Comments
H/T George Phillies; text version is at Gold America Group. The short version is that Rachel Hawkridge says she was unjustly purged from the Libertarian National Convention Oversight Committee. The attachment details her case for anyone who wants the long version: Convention Defense. Some prior discussion of this issue already took place in the election [...]
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Indiana Green Party Annual Congress
November 4th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Posted by eclecticvibe at Green Party Watch: Indiana Green Party Annual Congress Nov. 13, 2010, 11 am – 5 pm All Souls Unitarian Church 5805 East 56th Street Indianapolis, IN 46226-1526 For More Info Call 317.370.7682 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting 317.370.7682 end_of_the_skype_highlighting and leave a message for Jay Parks.
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Lynne Williams thanks her supporters
November 4th, 2010 · 10 Comments
The 2010 Green candidate for governor, who then dropped out to run for State Senate, sent the following email to the supporters of her Senate race (Williams received about 12 percent of the vote, which was actually less than the margin between the Democrat and the Republican): While I am disappointed in the results of [...]
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Candidates endorsed by the Boston Tea Party surpass a million votes
November 4th, 2010 · No Comments
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com by Darryl W. Perry, Chair of the Boston Tea Party National Committee: Preliminary results show that over 1 million votes were casts for BTP endorsed candidates (1,129,631). While no BTP endorsed candidate won election Tuesday night, there were several good showings. Eighteen candidates received at least 20% (8) or 20,000 votes (13); [...]
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Libertarian Party of Ohio on their progress
November 4th, 2010 · 34 Comments
Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: LIBERTARIANS CONTINUE TO GAIN GROUND IN OHIO Republicans won the 2010 mid-term elections based primarily on a huge resurgence of public interest in Libertarian platforms of smaller government involvement and common sense fiscal conservatism. While the tidal wave of Republican enthusiasm has swept the GOP back into power, they weren’t the only [...]
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Libertarian and Green Parties retain ballot access in Texas
November 4th, 2010 · 3 Comments
From the Lone Star Report via TPID: It’s true that Texas Democrats did not file a candidate in the race for Comptroller, leaving only Republican incumbent Susan Combs versus two third-party candidates. But that doesn’t mean this race doesn’t represent a loss for Democrats (at least, in future elections). We previously reported that if the [...]
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Independence Party of Minnesota holds balance of power in close race for Governor
November 4th, 2010 · 4 Comments
According to the New York Times election results board, with 100% of precincts reporting, only 0.5% separates the Democratic and Republican candidates. Additional votes which may be counted, such as provisional ballots, make this race too close to call. Tom Horner of the Independence Party got 11.9% in this race, with several other candidates in [...]
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PSL: ‘Election results: right-wing shift or anger at the status quo?’
November 4th, 2010 · 6 Comments
The Party for Socialism and Liberation analysis of the 2010 election results.
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Green candidate for PA state rep. Hugh Giordano thanks supporters; announces effort to organize local Greens, possible 2012 run, and more
November 4th, 2010 · 1 Comment
From the Hugh Giordano campaign in Philadelphia (I volunteered for Hugh’s campaign, and he received about 18 percent of the vote, while winning a few precincts): To My Supporters, I have sat back and thought about what to say, and all I can say is – Thank you! Thank you to all the thousands of [...]
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