From the Denver Post via TPID: “I went to dinner at 6 o’clock and kept thinking ‘This is really going to work,’ ” Tancredo said in an interview with The Denver Post on Thursday. “And of course it didn’t. I’m content in the fact that it’s part of God’s plan. I just wish he wouldn’t [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: From Illinois Green Party gubernatorial candidate Rich Whitney: November 4, 2010 – 12:34 am Don’t Lose Heart! Cause for Hope Amidst the Disappointment A “Final” Campaign Message (But Read On!) by Rich Whitney, 2010 Green Party Candidate for Governor To the hundreds of people who supported me in my [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Al-Jazeera English has published a detailed profile of Farheen Hakeem, a current Green Party US co-chair who has run for office several times in Minnesota, including a recent run for governor: Every four years the US elects a new president. It is a process that is scrutinised the world [...]

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Ballot Access News: Preliminary election returns show these national totals for each party, in the November 2010 election, for the office at the top of the ballot. “Office at the top of the ballot” means Governor. If a state had no gubernatorial election, it means U.S. Senate. For the four states that had neither a [...]

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Richard Winger of ballot access news explains current ballot status for minor parties, leading into the 2012 campaign for US President, versus their ballot status four years ago.

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Liberty Point: Libertarian candidates consider election defeats a learning experience, prepare for the next election. Although the results of the 2010 election were a disappointment for North Carolina’s Libertarian candidates because they were not elected, several consider it a very good learning experience and preparation for future campaigns. Dr. Mike Beitler, Libertarian candidate for U.S. [...]

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Video from Ohio Libertarian Travis Irvine for Congress thanking supporters. H/T Kevin Knedler. Irvine’s campaign was notable for his use of videos. There’s a collection of them on his youtube channel.

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H/T Ballot Access News: Election Recap from the Vermont Progressive Party: Vermont’s Progressives, largely avoided the lurch to the right witnessed across the country with Tuesday’s general election. All five Progressive incumbents seeking re-election were returned to office. Brattleboro Representatives Sarah Edwards and Mollie Burke ran unopposed. This will be Mollie’s second term in Montpelier, [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch The eleven Green Party candidates on the ballot this year for US Senate netted a combined half million votes. The 510,000 votes is the highest combined total for Green Party Senate candidates since 2000, when Medea Benjamin won 326,000 votes for US Senate in California and Vance Hansen picked [...]

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Gayle McLaughlin – the mayor of Richmond, California, which is, at over 100,000 people, the largest city in the nation with a Green mayor – sent the following email to supporters of her successful bid for re-election: Dear Friends, Let me begin by saying it is because of your decency, your dignity, and your determination [...]

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Ben Manski, a high profile Green candidate for state representative in Wisconsin who got over 30 percent of the vote but lost, sent the following email to his supporters: On Tuesday, a day difficult for our progressive movement, you inspired me. I remember leaving the polls on the UW-Madison campus having already recognized that straight-party [...]

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Tim Cavanaugh at Reason Hit and Run (excerpt): My erstwhile colleagues at the L.A. Times frequently lament the influence of John and Ken, rightwing radio talkers on local station KFI who have been described to me as “The most powerful people in California.” So I was mildly hopeful that Ken and John’s endorsement of the [...]

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At Hugh Giordano’s election night party in Philadelphia, there were two volunteers from this effort present, collecting signatures.  Incidentally, the numbers for Hugh’s race are wrong in the article below.  He actually got about 18 percent of the vote and came in about 2 percent behind the Republican.  Now, from the website In Defence of [...]

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Jesse Walker at Reason Hit and Run: Russ Feingold wasn’t just endorsed by Bob Barr. He was the Bob Barr of the left, and I mean that mostly as a compliment. When Barr was in Congress he could be bad on “social” freedoms, especially the drug war, but he nonetheless took stances on privacy and [...]

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Eric Sundwall in the Examiner: While some partisans lick their chops in anticipation of their new political spoils and others their wounds from electoral battle, Libertarian Party members of NY and activists are scrambling to determine if in fact they may have ballot status. Reminded of the 1998 effort of the Working Families Party that [...]

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WASHINGTON – Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle commented today on the Transportation Security Administration’s use of strip-search machines at airports. Hinkle said, “The TSA should end the strip-search machine program immediately. “We’ve reached a point where our government has no qualms about humiliating us. “Everyone who cares about civil liberties should be outraged that the [...]

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From Jake Towne via Third Party and Independent Daily: From the not-yet-100%-official results from the state elections board, 15,241 votes were cast in favor of freedom in the district yesterday, for about 8% of the total. I suppose the bad news (and sorry to be blunt) is this means 92% of the votes were cast [...]

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Dandelion Salad by way of On The Wilder Side: http://rt.com [...] Nader believes that Theodore Dreiser put it very well many years ago, when he said that “the corporations are the government”. “Knowing they [corporations] can’t be out front because people don’t like a lot of these big corporations, they are ripped off by the [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The Colorado Independent has an interesting story about Colorado Green Party US Senate candidate Bob Kinsey: In the nailbiter Colorado U.S. Senate race watched by the nation this week, Green Party candidate Bob Kinsey came in third place, after Democratic Sen. Michael Bennet and Republican Ken Buck. Kinsey pulled [...]

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Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Wayne Root Profiled by AOL News today as 2012 Presidential Contender Excerpt: Sports Handicapper Gambles on Becoming President Now that the Democrats have suffered a historic defeat on election day, a sports handicapper is doubling down on his goal of becoming President in 2012. Wayne Allyn Root is a [...]

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