ATLANTA, GA – November 1, 2010 – Chuck Donovan, Georgia’s Libertarian candidate for U.S. Senate, is not surprised to hear, Democrat Roy Barnes, publicly state his support for Republican Johnny Isakson again. During Sunday night’s Atlanta Press Club Debate on GPB, Barnes said, “I like Johnny Isakson. I think he’s a fine Senator.” The Senate [...]

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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch: RICH WHITNEY, LEALAN JONES, AND THE ILGP FILE SUIT AGAINST WTTW OVER DEBATE EXCLUSION Carbondale, IL— The Illinois Green Party and candidates Rich Whitney and LeAlan Jones filed suit in federal court late yesterday against public television station WTTW, the Corporation for Public Broadcasting, the Public Broadcasting Service and [...]

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Excerpt from the Daily Caller at http://kristindavis2010.com/: Since last Monday’s New York gubernatorial debate, I’ve been disappointed to read that a few reporters said I was using “cheat sheets” during the debate. The New York Post said my remarks were “ghostwritten.” Former Mayor Ed Koch said my lines were written by my campaign advisor, “Roger [...]

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Austin Cassidy at Uncovered Politics: All five candidates for governor of Idaho met for a debate on Thursday, in front of a packed crowd at the Idaho Capitol and broadcast on Idaho Public Television. Attending the showdown were Republican governor Butch Otter, Democrat Keith Allred, Libertarian Ted Dunlap and independents Jana Kemp and Pro-Life Richardson. [...]

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Ballot Access News: The Ohio News Organization sponsored candidate debates this year for the gubernatorial and U.S. Senate races. Only the Democratic and Republican nominees were invited to these debates. Last month, Dan La Botz, Socialist Party nominee for U.S. Senate, complained to the Federal Election Commission that the Ohio News Organization did not list [...]

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Ballot Access News: On October 27, Rhode Island [held] a gubernatorial debate, in which all 7 ballot-listed candidates [participated]. See this story. Thanks to Gene Berkman for the link. The candidates are the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, and Moderate Parties, and all four independent candidates. The candidates include independent Lincoln Chafee and Moderate Party [...]

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Ballot Access News: On October 27, Louisiana held a televised U.S. Senate debate in which six candidates participated. See this story. The debate sponsors invited each political party nominee, and also invited anyone who had either held elected office recently, or who had raised or spent $50,000. That enable two of the independent candidates to [...]

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Ballot Access News: Field Poll Shows California Gubernatorial “Other” Candidates at 5% On October 28, the Field Poll released a gubernatorial poll for California. The poll did not mention all 6 candidates on the ballot. It merely asked respondents if they favor the Democratic nominee, the Republican nominee, or a minor party nominee. 5% of [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: Massachusetts Green-Rainbow Party gubernatorial candidate Jill Stein took part in a debate with Democratic incumbent Deval Patrick, Republican Charlie Baker, and Democrat-turned-independent Tim Cahill on Monday, October 25th. Here is footage of the debate from Boston TV station WGBH:

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Emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Even as pendulum of partisan politics continues to swing back and forth between the incumbent parties of big government, this year freedom finally has cause to rejoice. More and more people in Dallas and nationwide are beginning to see through the “two-party system”, and they are increasingly seeing the Libertarian Party as [...]

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Emailed by Steve Hoodjer to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Mid-Major Candidates Debate on Iowa Public Television, Radio In the past two weeks, Iowa Public Broadcasting has held three candidate forums that have included independent and mid-major party candidates. On Wednesday, October 20, Iowa Public Television hosted a Third Party Governor’s debate that included three of the four non-major [...]

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A Detroit Free Press poll has independent conservative Glenn Wilson at 8% in a race with a virtual dead heat between the Republican and Democratic candidates: Detroit Free Press poll: Dan Benishek (R) – 42% Gary McDowell (D) – 40% Glenn Wilson (IND) – 8% Undecided – 10% The poll has a margin of sampling [...]

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Press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: SACRAMENTO, Calif. – While the Democratic and Republican Party candidates continue to debate only amongst themselves, the four other gubernatorial candidates in California are gearing up to participate in what is sure to be a vigorous, all-inclusive debate hosted at California State University, Sacramento, in the Forest Suite located on [...]

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Image via Wikipedia Kimberly Wilder at On The Wilder Side: Okay, I am not sure if you should vote for Rent Is Too Damn High candidate Jimmy McMillan. Though, you sure have to give him credit! He has gotten his message across. He has launched a message and a slogan that is at three million [...]

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Press release emailed to contact.ipr@gmail.com: ATLANTA, GA – October 25, 2010 – Chuck Donovan, Libertarian candidate for U.S Senate from Georgia, participated last night in the only debate incumbent Republican Senator Johnny Isakson decided to include in his campaign schedule. The Atlanta Press Club-sponsored debate was televised live from the Georgia Public Broadcasting studios in [...]

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Email from Steve Hoodjer to contact.ipr@gmail.com: On Saturday, October 23, Iowa Public Television hosted a debate among all three candidates for Secretary of State. Libertarian Jake Porter debated with the Democrat incumbent Michael Mauro and Republican challenger Matt Schulz, a lawyer and Council Bluffs city councilman. Porter is the only mid-major party candidate for statewide [...]

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In the race for Governor of New York (which has been a hot topic at IPR in the past week or two), there was only one debate that featured all the candidates, which has received a great deal of attention far outside New York State. The only other debate of any kind in this race [...]

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Via Jim Galloway at the Atlanta Journal-Constitution: The three candidates for U.S. Senate had their one and only debate Sunday night. Given the current political climate, exchanges between Republican incumbent Johnny Isakson and Democrat Michael Thurmond were remarkably civil. The only harsh notes of discord in the Atlanta Press Club debate were struck by Chuck [...]

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Posted by IPR reader Be Rational in comments on a previous post: Warren Redlich is on the way to breaking the 50,000 vote barrier. Warren on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=211524788883&v=wall Warren at the Debate: From the Libertarian Donors Club letter: Warren Redlich NY Governor 50,000 votes http://wredlich.com/ny/ New York is an important state in the eyes of [...]

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Ciara O’Rourke in the Austin American-Statesman: True to his word, GOP Gov. Rick Perry did not attend Tuesday night’s gubernatorial debate in Austin. He’d earlier said he wouldn’t gab toe-to-toe with Democratic nominee Bill White until White released more tax returns from his stints in public posts. Unsilenced, White, Libertarian candidate Kathie Glass and Green [...]

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