Earth Intelligence Network CEO and Open Source Intelligence advocate Robert David Steele (Vivas) ended his campaign for the Reform Party presidential nomination. He said the following via e-mail: I got zero traction within the party — I scared them with my wild ideas of creating a team — and I got zero traction with Rocky Anderson, [...]

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BURNET, Texas (Feb. 23) – The Lee Wrights for President campaign has launched another project to help win votes for the Libertarian Party and Libertarian candidates in 2012. The Million Vote March  is an effort to achieve a historic one million votes for the Libertarian candidate for President, and to encourage people to vote for [...]

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In his New York Times column, Thomas Friedman expresses an interest in seeing a “smart independent” candidate participate in the presidential debates in order to “make Obama and his Republican opponent better.” The person he suggests could play this role is former U.S. Comptroller General David Walker. In the article, Walker praises the presidential campaigns [...]

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Former Arizona Sheriff Richard Mack is running for U.S. Congress in Texas’ 21st district as a Republican. He is scheduled to speak at a Lincoln Day dinner in Idaho next month. Mack’s history of participation with other political parties has become an issue for 14 members of the Kootenai County Republican Party, who wrote a [...]

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From the campaign press release: “Tomorrow, I will formally end my bid for the GOP nomination for President of the United States. As the GOP and the networks host debate number twenty-something this evening, they have once again turned their backs on the democratic process by choosing to exclude a former Governor and Congressman. I [...]

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AlternativeRight.com posted this podcast with A3P nominee Merlin Miller. The description reads: Merlin Miller, the American Third Position Party’s candidate for president, joins Richard to discuss his party’s platform as well the prospects for outside-the-box and populist politics.

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See descriptions under the previous open threads if you don’t know what the open threads are about (although it’s pretty self-explanatory). Here is a video from Rap News AKA the Juice Media….

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Today Jill Stein’s campaign, aimed at securing the Green Party’s nomination for president, sent out a fundraising email with the pitch of “Double Your Green.”  That is, if Stein raises $5,000 in donations of $250 or less from 20 or more states, the federal government will then match donations of that amount dollar-for-dollar.  Interestingly, the [...]

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Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein has won the Illinois primary, which was held online and open to all residents of Illinois 13 and older.  From the Green Party of Illinois: Results are in from the Illinois Green Party’s first ever online primary. With a total of 153 ballots cast, Harvard-educated physician Jill Stein of [...]

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From the Libertarian Party blog: The candidates running for the Libertarian nomination for president have been removed per the vote of the Libertarian National Committee. See the only one-sentence blog entry on the LP website in recent memory here. ————————————- Interestingly, this decision is exactly the opposite of what the general membership apparently desires.  According [...]

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From the Minnesota Daily: A redistricting map recently submitted to the Minneapolis Charter Commission is drawing concern from members of the Minnesota Green Party. The Citizens Committee for Fair Redistricting, a group which represents immigrants from Somalia and East Africa, drew the map which would move Minneapolis city Councilman Cam Gordon — the only Green [...]

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The Huffington Post published an article today about the “the more than 300 lesser known Americans who have registered with the Federal Election Commission to run for the highest office in the land.”  Those mentioned include Green Party candidate Mike Ballantine, and Independent candidates “Naked Cowboy” Robert Burck and “Average Joe” Schriner. The article also claims that Libertarian [...]

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