American Independent Party of California activist Don J. Grundmann has published an essay entitled “The Corruption of Alan Keyes: A Timeless Tale Brought to Our Times” online. The piece, which runs nearly 10,000 words, details Grundmann’s encounters with Keyes and his supporters during Keyes’s run for the 2008 Constitution Party presidential nomination. (The American Independent [...]

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Posted by Alan Keyes, 2008 Presidential candidate, America’s Independent Party, at his blog, Loyal To Liberty: Those who are opposed to Obama’s totalitarian government takeover of the health care system should be wary of thinking that the tussle over it is a struggle between leftists who favor socialism and pro-Big Business proponents of the private [...]

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The Federal Election Commission has released its “2008 presidential popular vote summary for all candidates listed on at least one state ballot.” The results: Barack Obama (Democrat) 69,498,516 [52.93%] John McCain (Republican) 59,948,323 [45.65%] Ralph Nader (Independent, Peace and Freedom) 739,034 [0.56%] Bob Barr (Libertarian) 523,715 [0.40%] Chuck Baldwin (Constitution/Reform/U.S. Taxpayers) 199,750 [0.15%] Cynthia McKinney [...]

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com. Posted to IPR by Paulie. Bonus track:

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Alan Keyes, in this video, which i’ll embed below, explains his opposition to the Federal Reserve. He claims, at the 1:20 minute mark, that Ron Paul learned of the problems with the Federal Reserve from him. Dr. Alan Keyes is being lambasted across the blogosphere for this off-handed comment. Rep. Ron Paul has been speaking critically [...]

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Alan Keyes made a quixotic bid for President in 2008 that took him through the nomination processes of a major party, a minor party, and a party he would later create–though he also claimed to be an Independent for a short time between some of those abortive races. In the end, Alan Keyes recieved just [...]

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Keyes made an appearance at a fundraiser recently where he warned that because of Obama’s policies the “U.S. will cease to exist”. In 2008 Keyes briefly ran a campaign for President, first seeking the Republican nomination, then attempting to get the Constitution Party nomination, and then finally running a the candidate of his own, new, [...]

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AIP News reports: The last word from el rushbo today was a recommendation that if Blagojevich wants to stick it to his pals he should nominate Alan Keyes for the vacant US Senate seat… Interesting. Maybe we are having an effect. — Bob Bailey “El Rushbo” is a nickname for broadcaster Rush Limbaugh. Karole Noymann [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News. This may be of interest to our readers because both America’s Independent presidential candidate Alan Keyes (one of the plaintiffs) and the national website of the Constitution Party have made this a top priority. See previous IPR reports: Constitution Party: ‘Why is the media silent on the Obama birth certificate [...]

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On its PaperTrail blog, the Center for Public Integrity summarizes the amounts raised by major and alternative presidential candidates in 2008. Independent Ralph Nader’s total receipts were $4,502,680; Libertarian Bob Barr $1,383,681; Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin $261,673; and Green Cynthia McKinney $198,658. Other candidates’ funds raised are available online. Among the notable third-party candidates, [...]

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From Essence Magazine, by way of The Western Standard Shotgun blog: ESSENCE.COM: What exactly do you want to accomplish with this lawsuit? ALAN KEYES: I had read a little bit about the issues that were being raised about Obama back during the primary season. At first I thought, like a lot of people, “There’s nothing [...]

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Orange County, California’s elections division has their own website and have release write-in totals. California, as a whole, has not yet released write-in totals, so this is the first glimpse into the larger results for write-ins. Write in votes in Orange County, California: Chuck Baldwin: 373 votes, 0.0% Ron Paul: 3118 votes, 0.3% If these [...]

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Two Pennsylvania newspapers detail presidential write-in votes in their areas. The Bucks County Courier Times writes that Rep. Ron Paul led Sen. Hillary Clinton 135 to 119 in Bucks County, and 322 to 289 in Montgomery County. Receiving the “third highest amount is Constitution Party nominee Chuck Baldwin, who nabbed 60 votes in Bucks, which [...]

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By Alex Kane in the Indypendent While no third party presidential candidate was able to crack the one percent threshold in this year’s election, third parties have long been an important part of the electoral process. Historically, third parties have sprung up from across the ideological spectrum. And although none has won the White House [...]

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Write-in totals are not completely counted, nor do we know who they went to yet. But David Leip’s US Election Atlas has at least 78,346 write-ins being counted thus far. This is the largest official write-in total ever. It can be reasonably expected that Hillary Clinton, Ron Paul, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin will recieve [...]

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Posted at Ballot Access News On November 13, Alan Keyes and his vice-presidential running mate in California, Reverend Wiley Drake, and other members of the American Independent Party, filed a new lawsuit over Barack Obama’s eligibility to be president. Keyes v Bowen, Superior Court, Sacramento, 34-2008-80000096-cu-wm-gds. Unlike other lawsuits about the eligibility of either John [...]

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Despite winning a late endorsement from Ron Paul, Constitution Party candidate Chuck Baldwin has not done particularly well tonight. With 7% of the vote reporting in California, Alan Keyes on the American Independent Party ballot line has already captured over 10,000 votes. If those numbers hold up, Keyes might win well over 100,000 votes just [...]

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Ballot Access News reports This year, 23 presidential candidates are on the ballot in at least one state. That is the highest in U.S. history except for 1992, when there were also 23. Generally there are more such candidates in periods of great public unhappiness. Here is a list, with the predominant party label for [...]

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Writing for an Ohio newspaper, Michael Medved asked the question, “Why the Third Party Bust in 2008?” His answer is a combination of reasons: Democratic and Republican primary contestors who zapped the excitement from third parties, major party candidates who are marketed toward “cantankerous independents,” and more. The opinion piece begins: Final returns are still [...]

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I am heading out of town for a while, so I figured I’d go ahead and give my guess about the vote totals for alternative party presidential candidates to leave you with something to talk about. I will refrain on offering a final prediction on the overall winner, though right now I expect the Democratic [...]

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