“The Saakashvili government in Georgia made a foolish mistake by initiating hostilities in its breakaway province of South Ossetia,” says Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr in a press release entitled No Foreign Aid for Georgian War. “American taxpayers should not have to pay for that mistake. After all, they already are paying $10 [...]

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Ballot Access News is reporting that Bob Barr actually failed to make the ballot in Maine. The Bob Barr campaign is filing a lawsuit in Maine to have the Secretary of State except late signatures, which is the same strategy being used in West Virginia. Barr’s campaign now has active lawsuits in New Hampshire, Massachussetts, [...]

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In a recent fundraising letter, Barr campaign manager Russ Verney boasts of Bob Barr’s willingness to sue a church over not inviting him to a privately organized event:
After weeks of negotiations and calls to Saddleback Church from leaders from every corner of the political spectrum supporting Bob Barr’s inclusion, we’ve been left out in the [...]

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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 [...]

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CQ Politics updates its state-by-state poll tracking in the presidential race, and Libertarian Bob Barr and independent Ralph Nader are registering in a few states:
In Colorado, a Rocky Mountain News/CBS 4 poll conducted August 11-13 (+-/ 4.38%) has Barr at three percent, Nader at two percent.
In Florida, an InsiderAdvantage poll conducted August 11 [...]

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The Miami Herald has a brief item on Libertarian Bob Barr’s presidential campaign, saying Barr “is not your usual fringe candidate. For one thing, he’s got a record as an elected official. Barr, at the time a conservative Republican, represented a suburban Atlanta congressional district from 1994-2003. And he became a national figure [...]

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Marking the halfway point between Bob Barr’s nomination as the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate, LP founder David Nolan has written an assessment of the presidential campaign’s performance to date. Nolan rates the campaign’s achievements in “Media, Message, Money and Management” in what could probably be regarded as a mixed review. Regards to Lew [...]

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According to the LA Times‘ Top of the Ticket blog, the judge deciding on the Barr campaign’s last-minute lawsuit against Saddleback Church’s two-party forum was deliberating until at least 8 PM Friday night. According to an update recently posted, the judge has declined the campaign’s request for an injunction, and the event will proceed [...]

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In a post on the New York Observer website, Steve Kornacki says a “clueless” Newt Gingrich adopted “kooky logic” in arguing that if Sen. Joseph Lieberman becomes John McCain’s running mate, Libertarian Bob Barr could get 15% of the national popular vote.
Kornacki writes, “Barr is struggling to attract money, press attention, and on-line interest and [...]

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A new Zogby poll finds that “More than half of likely voters nationwide — 55% — want Republican-turned-Libertarian Bob Barr to participate in presidential debates this fall, while nearly half - 46% — said they think Ralph Nader should be allowed into the on-stage fray.” Among independents, 69% said Barr should be included, “and [...]

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