California is still counting ballots, but one Libertarian candidate has already broken a record. Pam Brown, running for Lt. Governor has received more than 525,000 votes. Current totals as of November 13, 2010: Gavin Newsom (Dem) 4,530,039 50.2%   Abel Maldonado (Rep) 3,548,727 39.4%   Jim King (AI) 170,635 1.8%   James “Jimi” Castillo (Grn) [...]

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Wayne Allyn Root Dressed in 1776 Garb Seven Magazine in Las Vegas Features Cover Story about Libertarianism

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Posted by Randy Eshelman at LP blog: November 2nd came and went with exciting news from all over the country. The electorate rejected overt, big government, nanny-state policies. Nebraska Libertarians are not however, going to hold our breath in the hope that the GOP will magically adhere to minimum government, maximum freedom principles. They certainly [...]

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Ballot Access News: In the aftermath of the November 2010 election, 35 states plus the District of Columbia have at least one ballot-qualified party other than the Democratic and Republican Parties. This is the highest such number, immediately after a midterm election, for any election since 1918. The 15 states without a ballot-qualified party (statewide), [...]

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Ballot Access News notes that at ElectionLawBlog, Emory University Law Professor Michael Kang has a guest blog suggesting that it would be good policy to ease ballot access laws for the general election, and also to repeal “sore loser” laws.

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Constitution Party News via TPID: Tom Tancredo’s American Constitution candidacy in Colorado won 620,632 votes. This total is far and away the top votal total for any candidate outside the Democrat or Republican Party. It appeared near the end that he might win the race. His total percentage nearly doubled his poll numbers when he [...]

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TPID: From Denver Westword: By inching over 10 percent of the vote last Tuesday, Dan Maes saved the Colorado Republican Party from the humiliation of falling to minor-party status. But while Tom Tancredo didn’t win the race, his 30 percent-plus of the vote elevated the American Constitution Party to a major Colorado party. “We haven’t [...]

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TPID: From Gordon Weil at Maine’s Morning Sentinel: Since 1974, when Maine began to see credible independent candidates for governor, there have been 10 gubernatorial elections in Maine. Independents ran in nine of them. Only two were won by candidates who captured a majority of the vote. In other words, eight of the last 10 [...]

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Open letter from Ralph Nader and several other people (see end of article for list) to Barack Obama posted at Nader.org: Dear President Obama, The U.S. government bailout of, and acquisition of a majority share in, General Motors was an exceptional action, taken in response to exceptional circumstances. The U.S. stake in GM obviously poses [...]

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I just noticed that the LNC meeting archives since the past national convention in St. Louis now have minutes of executive committee conference calls, for anyone who wants to keep up with them. It appears that the 2004-5 minutes in the public archive included conference call minutes, but between 2006 and the May 2010 convention [...]

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TPID: From the Oklahoma Pirate Party: The Pirate Party of Oklahoma would like to take this opportunity to thank the candidates that have received our endorsements and congratulate them for standing up for democracy in Oklahoma. It takes courage to become involved in the political process, and these candidates endured hardships and time away from [...]

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TPID: From the Pirate Party: The United States Pirate Party is pleased to announce that after much hard work and effort, Oregon Pirate Party is now officially recognized by Administrator Brittany Phelps as our third state party. Congratulations, Oregon! The Oregon Pirate Party (or OPP) is headed up by Communications Officer Andrew Bradshaw IV, Liaison [...]

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Rob Nielsen in the Volante (University of South Dakota student voice) [excerpt]: Two years ago, the College Libertarians formed. Last year the now disbanded Students Against the State organized. And just this semester, the College Socialist have thrown their hat into the ring as well. Richardson said the trend is part of a broader change [...]

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Lauri Apple in the Chicago Reader alternative weekly: The Libertarian Party of Illinois ran a full slate of candidates this year, with a guy named Lex Green at the top of the ballot. A “Green” Libertarian? Confusing! No wonder they didn’t meet the five percent threshold required to more easily get on the ballot in [...]

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Posted on facebook, sent to me by Erik G. We Support a DFW, TX LP National Convention in 2012 Friends, As many of you know our LNC is currently working on a location for the 2012 National Convention. The 2 contenders are DFW, TX and Las Vegas, NV. As you can imagine I am admittedly [...]

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From the New York Observer: City Council member Charles Barron spoke out against the selection of Cathie Black as the city’s new public schools chancellor at a City Hall press conference this morning, saying that the lack of an open selection process failed the city’s schools and children. “Mayor Bloomberg, they say insanity is when [...]

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From Matt Miller at the Washington Post via Third Party and Independent Daily: I’m a Clinton White House alum who had hoped President Obama could usher in the debate we need. It’s hardly all his fault that we’re not there, but I’m convinced the parties’ interest groups and “thought police” make real progress impossible without [...]

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Via Liberty Lion: On November 11, 2010, the Personal Freedom Party adopted the following Slogan: Tell Your Children! Fight The Menace! Kill The Devil! Save The Country! The phrase was used in the song “Reefer Madness” from Reefer Madness: The Musical, which is a musical satire of the 1938 cult movie classic Tell Your Children [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Arkansas News reports on the Arkansas Green Party: LITTLE ROCK — The Green Party of Arkansas says its strong finish in several statewide races last week shows it deserves guaranteed ballot access in the next general election, though it failed to clear the hurdle set by state law. [...]

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By Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: 53 Green Party candidates appeared on the ballot this November, one more in Washington was on the ballot in the Primary, and 4 more ran write-in campaigns. Of the 54 ballot candidates, results ranged from 0.16% to 8.32%, from 157 votes to 17,545 votes. The average percentage of [...]

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