Josh Kraushaar penned an article about Virgil Goode and his electoral appeal in 2012 over at The Atlantic. Former Congressman Goode is the Presidential candidate of the Constitution Party. But it’s that mix of social conservatism with economic populism that doesn’t get much a hearing as it should, based on Americans’ political views. As my [...]

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Chuck Baldwin, the former Presidential nominee of the Constitution Party, has written this article endorsing Steve Stockman for Ron Paul’s Congressional seat. Ron Paul is a Congressman and former Presidential candidate of the Libertarian Party in 1988–he is not running for re-election this year. Steve Stockman is a candidate running to replace Ron Paul, as [...]

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Having lost the Constitution Party nomination for President on the first ballot, securing only a handful of votes, Laurie Roth is still giving thought to continuing her campaign for the Presidency of the United States. She said she felt called by God to run, and she sought the nomination partly because it’s difficult for an [...]

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Constitution Party Vice-Chairman Darrell Castle discusses the continuing use of torture: Listen here.

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Courtesy of Gary Odom:

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During the Constitution Party Convention I sent Jerome Corsi a message on Facebook asking him if he had any preference for the Constitution Party nomination. I asked Corsi because he is a high profile conservative pundit who has been unafraid to publicly associate himself with the Constitution Party. He didn’t reply while the Convention was [...]

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Virgil Goode delivered a speech to the Constitution Party convention after he won the presidential nomination of the party. This speech was recorded by C-SPAN and is now available on their website. The video cannot be embedded, but can be viewed here. Goode says that he regrets his vote for the Patriot Act and now [...]

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James Antle mentions Virgil Goode’s nomination in his Weekend Political Wrap-Up post. 3. Virgil Goode won the Constitution Party presidential nomination this weekend. The former Virginia congressman — who had previously been elected as a Democrat, independent, and Republican — is the conservative third party’s most politically experienced nominee. Unlike Alan Keyes four years ago, Goode [...]

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The latest report on registration by party in California is out and the winners are: Independents, unqualified parties, the Constitution Party of California, the Peace & Freedom Party, and the American Independent Party. All of those groups made gains, however small. The Democratic Party, Republican Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, and Americans Elect all declined. [...]

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Virgil Goode just won the Presidential nomination of the Constitution Party, but he’s already reaching out to other voting groups. In this exclusive interview with Uncovered Politics, he says he will be reaching out to Ron Paul supporters. The low-key ex-Rocky Mount lawmaker, who belonged to Rep. Ron Paul’s study group as a member of [...]

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Referencing this post, I have compiled a map of the Constitution Party’s state by state Presidential nomination votes. Red = Goode carried all votes Red-Orange = Goode carried a majority of votes Blue = Castle carried all votes Light-Blue = Castle carried majority of votes Green = Wells carried all votes Light-Green = Wells carried [...]

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The Vice Presidential candidate of the Constitution Party is, as expected, outgoing national chairman Jim Clymer. Clymer is a lawyer based out of Pennsylvania who has twice run as Lt. Governor of Pennsylvania and once ran for U.S. Senate in Pennsylvania. He has also run for some local elections in his county. Clymer’s nomination seems [...]

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The Constitution Party National Convention is coming to a close and the news is coming in fast. We reported earlier today that Virgil Goode had won the Presidential nomination of the party with 203 of 403 possible votes. This is how the votes were cast by state: AZ: 6 votes for Castle CA: 8 votes [...]

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Virgil Goode has won the Presidential nomination of the Constitution Party on the first ballot, winning a majority of 203 votes. He made it clear, prior to the vote, that his choice for Vice Presidential candidate is outgoing Chairman Jim Clymer of Pennsylvania. Clymer is, by far, the favorite now to win the Vice Presidential [...]

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A couple of issues were brought before the Convention as a whole based on petition. The Social Security plank failed on a voice vote. The estimate I received was around 75% to 25%. The Preamble was also brought before the Convention as a whole. This was news to me. I was aware that the SS [...]

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This just in from our source: Darrell Castle of Tennessee will seek the Constitution Party nomination. Don Grundmann of California will as well. Update I: Was in error. Update II: I seem to have misunderstood my source. Sorry. Howard Phillips apparently did not give the nominating speech for Castle. Howard Phillips actually spoke on behalf of Goode. Castle spoke on [...]

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According to our man on the scene, Rep. Cynthia Davis of Missouri, who is running for Lt. Gov., just read a terse message that Chuck Baldwin sent her saying he didn’t think her campaign for Lt. Gov. was going to raise the money or put together the organization needed to win so he isn’t going to help.  She [...]

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According to our man on the inside, the platform remains “90-95% of what it was from 2008.” The new platform, with revisions, “runs 20 pages of small print.” “However, a very smart move by a MN delegate … was to submit a 5 page summary of the platform that was designed to be put on the [...]

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According to Cody Quirk, Frank Fluckiger, the current Western States Area Chairman, will be competing for the national chairmanship against previously announced candidate Randall Stufflebeam.

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There are 126 delegates representing 37 states and 403  votes. (Editor’s Note: these numbers have been corrected) (If I’m not mistaken the state chair gets to vote for all the unaccounted for delegate slots from his state.) The states represented are: GA, VT, CA, CT, IL, LA, NJ, MN, ID, MD, NE, NV, OH, PA, MA, WA, [...]

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