Even though Green Party candidate for governor Rich Whitney got over 10 percent of the vote in the 2006 gubernatorial race, for some reason Rasmussen has left him – and other third party candidates – out of a recently released poll. Still, without any third party candidate mentioned by name, the “other” category was chosen [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Third parties, general'
Rasmussen poll in Illinois excludes Rich Whitney, but third parties still poll well
March 14th, 2010 · 5 Comments
Tags: Green Party · Third parties, general
Oklahoma City Daily Newspaper Runs Two Letters to the Editor in Support of Ballot Access Reform
March 13th, 2010 · No Comments
From Ballot Access News:
The Oklahoman for March 13 has two letters to the editor, advocating that the legislature pass HB 1072, the ballot access bill. See them at this link. Thanks to Micah Gamino for the link.
One of the letters:
Regarding “Access endeavor” (ScissorTales, March 6): It’s not entirely accurate that Oklahoma’s lawmakers have made [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
“Join California” reliminary tally of how many candidates filed in primary for partisan office
March 13th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Ballot Access News
The web page “Join California” has made a strenuous effort to learn how many candidates filed for partisan office in the June 8, 2010 California primaries. This information is not official. Each candidate files in his or her own home county, so “Join California” had to contact each of the 58 counties to [...]
Tags: Constitution Party · Green Party · Independents · Libertarian Party · Socialist/left parties · Third parties, general
Jesse Ventura: “I despise these two parties. They’re ruining our country.”
March 12th, 2010 · 13 Comments
Posted at Poli-Tea:
Former governor Jesse Ventura has been making the rounds on the various talk shows, promoting his new book. On Fox & Friends, the one-time pro-wrestler did not shy away from expressing his views on the Democratic-Republican two-party state. Transcribed from the video below:
Ventura: I’m concerned over these two parties because [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Coffee Party Holding Events Across Country Tomorrow
March 12th, 2010 · 18 Comments
Tomorrow, the newly formed Coffee Party organization will be holding meet-up style events across the country. There’s probably one near you. This could be a good outreach and organizing opportunity for third party and independent activists. From the Coffee Party’s mission statement:
The Coffee Party Movement gives voice to Americans who want to see cooperation in [...]
Tags: Socialist/left parties · Third parties, general
Christina Tobin, Libertarian for CA Secretary of State, announces schedule and opposes Prop 14
March 11th, 2010 · 11 Comments
If you’re in California, check out ballot access reform advocate and Libertarian candidate for California Secretary of State Christina Tobin’s newly announced schedule (Tobin is also getting help from some of the more prominent and respected ballot access reform advocates in the nation, like Richard Winger and Ralph Nader):
Christina Tobin Announces Schedule of Speaking Events [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party · Third parties, general
Oregon LP’s US Senate Candidate Delphine Pulls Logo
March 11th, 2010 · 2 Comments
Yahoo News/Sports Front Page Story on Oregon’s Libertarian Candidate for US Senate, Marc Delphine
Tags: Libertarian Party · Non-left/right parties · Third parties, general
Free and Equal: Stubborn Oklahoma lawmakers need to hear from you
March 9th, 2010 · 5 Comments
In an email to supporters today, the ballot access reform organization Free and Equal is asking people to contact Oklahoma state legislators and urge them to pass a ballot access reform bill. The email:
Oklahoma’s largest newspaper, The Oklahoman, mentioned Free & Equal in an editorial titled “Access endeavor” on March 6. The daily paper claimed [...]
Tags: Green Party · Third parties, general
Three Well-Known Election Law Activists Run for California Secretary of State
March 7th, 2010 · 10 Comments
An interesting article from Ballot Access News:
The election for California Secretary of State has three well-known election law activists this year, although the type of election law activism each has engaged in are very different from each other.
Christina Tobin is the only candidate seeking the Libertarian Party nomination. Here is her web page. She [...]
Tags: Libertarian Party · Third parties, general
Can Alternative Political Parties Quench the Nation’s Political Thirst?
March 3rd, 2010 · 1 Comment
Posted by Kris Broughton at bigthink.com:
In the last twelve months we’ve seen two new political organizations hit the nationwide scene with an intensity and a geographic presence unheard of since the sixties. Unlike the Libertarian Party, which grew through more traditional methods during the seventies and eighties, the memberships in the Tea Party and the [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
California’s Top Two Open Primaries Act: Pro and Con
February 27th, 2010 · 16 Comments
Independent and third party activists find themselves on opposite sides of the debate over California’s Top Two Primaries Act. Ballotpedia describes the proposition thusly:
The California Top Two Primaries Act ballot proposition is on the June 8, 2010 ballot in California as a legislatively-referred constitutional amendment. If approved by voters, the proposal will require that [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
The Coffee Party and the Tea Party
February 27th, 2010 · 19 Comments
A group calling itself the Coffee Party has begun to make waves in the political blogopshere following an article on the new organization published in the Washington Post yesterday. Independent progressive blogger Liberal Arts Dude looked into the group and has written up a post describing the organization and its aims, its relation to the [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
Free & Equal supports Oklahoma lobbying effort for fairer ballot access laws
February 25th, 2010 · 36 Comments
Sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
The Free & Equal Elections Foundation has made a financial commitment to a lobbying effort in Oklahoma aimed at easing the nation’s highest petition requirement for unqualified political parties.
The foundation has given an initial grant to Oklahomans for Ballot Access Reform (OBAR) a coalition of the state’s third parties to help fund [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
Mike Goens: ‘If we can’t find a true third party in this country we could be in trouble’
February 21st, 2010 · 2 Comments
Posted at Poli-Tea:
At the Times Daily, out of Alabama it seems, columnist Mike Goens argues that, given the structure of the two-party state and the dictatorial character of Democratic-Republican politics, third party and independent political activism may well provide the only means of arriving at real solutions to the many political problems facing the people [...]
Tags: Third parties, general
Sen. Lincoln Chafee: Evan Bayh, independents, and a new third party
February 21st, 2010 · 15 Comments
Placed literally in the middle of an op-ed piece by Senator Evan Bayh about why he is leaving the Senate, the New York Times today ran a piece by former Senator and current independent candidate for Rhode Island governor addressing the topic of a new third party emerging. Chafee speculates on Bayh running for president [...]
Tags: Independents · Third parties, general
