InfoZine has a feature on the “271 candidates who have announced their intentions to run and 62 more potential candidates who could run” for president this year, as listed by Project VoteSmart. In addition to Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Cynthia McKinney, and independent Ralph Nader, the piece also mentions [...]

[Read more →]

Earlier this week, IPR correspondent Trent Hill unveiled the first batch, #6-10, of IPR’s Top 10 third-party and independent candidates for the 2008 election season. Today, we bring you #s 1-5.
5.) State Rep. Michael Jackson scored 43% of the vote in a head-to-head primary runoff against Democrat Don Cazayoux in Louisiana’s 6th district. Now Jackson, [...]

[Read more →]

The AP reports three presidential candidates — Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, Libertarian Bob Barr, and America’s Independent Party candidate Alan Keyes — will speak at a rally organized by the Minuteman Civil Defense Corps on the first day of the Democratic National Convention in Denver later this month. All three will be on [...]

[Read more →]

IPR’s interview with Bob Bird, Alaska Independence Party candidate for U.S. Senate, reveals the pro-life leader and school teacher to be an unusually consistent and principled politician, less concerned with “looking good” than being right. Bird holds very “un-PC” views of the Bill of Rights and says he would probably have voted against ratification of [...]

[Read more →]

I have spent the last couple of days compiling information on the top 10 independent or third-party candidates in the country in 2008. For obvious reasons, this list had to have very specific criterion, otherwise it would have been far too expansive and far too hard to rank. So this list is specifically for candidates [...]

[Read more →]

Agence France Presse makes the rather odd assertion today that, in addition to John McCain and Barack Obama, there are “11 other candidates running for president.” Where AFP got that number is unclear — at most, only Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Cynthia McKinney, and independent Ralph Nader stand a [...]

[Read more →]

The America First Party has issued a press release condemning the recent federal bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as irresponsible government spending as an ineffective stopgap:
In an effort to bail out stockholders, lenders, and homeowners, congress and the president have raised the debt ceiling by an ear-popping $800 billion, thereby allowing our nation’s [...]

[Read more →]

Bob Bird, the Alaskan Independence Party’s candidate for US Senate, recently garnered the endorsement of the Alaskan Right to Life. Bird was president of the Alaska Right to Life from 1995-1997. The Bird campaign sent out a press release.
Today Alaskan Independence Party Candidate for U.S. Senate, Mr. Bob Bird was endorsed by the Alaska Right [...]

[Read more →]

Posted at Ballot Access News
Petitioning candidates for president who filed by the July 28 New Jersey deadline are Bob Barr, Roger Calero, Gloria La Riva, Cynthia McKinney, Brian Moore, and Ralph Nader. Also someone named Jeffrey Boss of Guttenberg, New Jersey, filed under the “Vote Here” Party label. His vice-presidential running-mate is Andrea Maria Boss.
The [...]

[Read more →]

Posted at Ballot Access News
The Prohibition Party expects to be on the ballot for president in these six states this year: Arkansas, Colorado, Florida, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Tennessee. That is modest, but it will be the most since 1980, when it was on in eight states for president.

[Read more →]