Libertarian Party HQ Monday Message: Dear Friend of Liberty, First of all I want to thank our over 800 candidates again for taking the time to run for office. Now that we’ve all had a little time to catch our breaths after election day, we’re working to compile and analyze the results of our efforts. [...]

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Posted by staff at LP blog: These are preliminary results for Libertarians running for Governor, U.S. Senate, and U.S. House. Vote counts and percentages are not final, but percentages probably will not change much. This list does not include several Libertarians who had to run as write-in candidates (their votes have not been counted yet). [...]

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Ballot Access News reports: Thanks very much to Morgan Daybell for helping me find instances at which independent legislators were elected or re-elected last week. It appears that independents were elected to state legislators in 2010 in Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maine, North Carolina, Rhode Island, South Dakota, Tennessee, and Vermont. We are still waiting to [...]

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This was post #125 by “Gains” in the Oregon Convention thread. It was interesting and thought provoking enough that I thought it deserved its own thread. Pay particular attention to the link to this article in Reason. We can win elections as Libertarians. We can make significant and cumulative strides in social change. We can [...]

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An interesting article on CapitalNewYork.com examines the personal and Green Party history of Howie Hawkins, the Greens’ 2010 gubernatorial nominee in New York who was successful in getting the 50,000 votes necessary for ballot access, as well as the history of the Greens in New York and their plans for the future, among other subjects.  [...]

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There will be a meeting of the state party’s committee, a fundraiser dinner featuring Green Party activist Mike Nance answering the question, “Was Hericletus right?” and a pancake breakfast the next morning at the house of Green Party activist Hillary Kane, which is part of an effort to form a new West Philadelphia Greens group.  [...]

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Sean Scallon, who has written a book on third party politics, expands on his argument for non-partisan elections in this article at EtherZone: Rep. Bob Ziegelbauer decided to break ranks. He was a conservative but had always run for office as a Democrat, a lean towards the partisan tilt of his State Assembly district in [...]

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Via Green Party Watch: From the Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party: Event Date: Sunday, November 14, 2010 – 9:00am – 6:00pm No matter what your current party affiliation — and especially if you aren’t enrolled in any party — we’d like to invite you to our annual State Convention to hear us out, and to find out [...]

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By way of Green Party Watch: MAINE GREENS CONGRATULATE CANDIDATES FOR RUNNING STRONG CAMPAIGNS, STRENGTHEN THE CALL FOR ELECTORAL REFORM Maine Green Independent Party Candidates who ran for the office of state house and state senate ran strong campaigns, often finishing a close second in the race Tuesday night. Fred Horch, of Brunswick, ran a [...]

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From the Boston Herald via TPID: Republican Charlie Baker, in his first public comments since Election Day, blamed Treasurer Tim Cahill and fizzling GOP enthusiasm for his defeat in an e-mail to supporters in which he also expressed sadness for failing to deliver a victory. . . . Baker finished 8 points behind Democratic Gov. [...]

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Posted by John Jay Myers on facebook. Myers ran as a Libertarian against Pete Sessions (R) in TX-32. Official release: “Thank you to all donors and volunteers! John Jay Myers raised more than any other Libertarian candidate in the 32nd district with over $7200, and he received the highest percentage of any Libertarian candidate in [...]

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Chelene Nightingale was on the ballot for Governor as the candidate of the American Independent Party in California. H/T James Ogle for transmitting this post-election message from Ms. Nightingale in comments on a previous post. To All My Supporters – THANK YOU!! One of the most wonderful things in life is to look around to [...]

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Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE ATLANTA – The 2010 election did not result in any newly-elected Libertarians, however the Libertarian Party of Georgia is happy with the results. With nearly 1 million votes earned cumulatively by the first full slate of statewide candidates in the party’s history, the most important aspect of Tuesday’s results [...]

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Thomas Sipos writes at Libertarian Peacenik: Third parties often fantasize that their vote totals are the tip of the iceberg. That for every vote they receive, there’s a large pool of Silent Supporters who would vote for them, but that these Silent Supporters don’t want to waste their vote on a third party that can’t [...]

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Ballot Access News (excerpt): The District of Columbia defines a party as a group that polled as much as 7,500 votes in the last election, for the offices that do count. When it became apparent that no Republican had polled as many as 7,500 votes this year for an office that counts toward the vote [...]

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Newsday published a short opinion piece, published in the on-line and print version, noting the growth of the third party vote in the 2010 Governor race.

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Bob Barr in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: For the past year, the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its parent, the Department of Homeland Security, along with Members of Congress from both parties and the Obama Administration, have been demanding Americans give up our basic civil liberties and our fundamental right to privacy, by submitting to a [...]

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Chuck Baldwin at ChuckBaldwinLive.com: This column was initially released last June. Without a doubt, this has been one of my most requested columns. So, in response to the large number of readers who have asked me to re-release this column, I do so today. And in doing so, I have added some new material to [...]

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…on http://www.justin.tv/lnc7. Reception/sound has not been good, and just went out as I have been typing this, but hopefully it will be back and with better quality. H/T George Phillies.

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by Ralph Nader at Nader.org: The mid-term 2010 Congressional elections are over and the exaggerations are front and center. “A tidal wave,” “an earthquake,” “a tsunami,” cried the Republican victors and their media acolytes. Wait a minute! No more than 7 percent of the actual voters switched sides to create a 14 point spread. This [...]

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