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New LP.org poll

February 4th, 2012 · 2 Comments

New poll up at LP.org: What’s the #1 benefit that local Libertarian candidates can offer voters if elected?: – Lower their tax bill so they can pay their bills, make ends meet, save, help others or buy more. – Give them the freedom to use marijuana, or medical marijuana, without penalty or with less penalty. [...]

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Update on Candidates for the Green Party Presidential Nomination

February 3rd, 2012 · 19 Comments

Green Party Watch held a presidential poll with the following results: 1,792 votes cast, Jill Stein received 1,223 of them, or 68%. Roseanne Barr, who had just entered the race in the last week, picked up 526 votes, or 29%. There were 35 votes for Kent Mesplay, and 8 votes for Harley Mikkelson GPW reports [...]

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Root: ‘Devastating Rebuke for Mainstream Media’

January 23rd, 2012 · 102 Comments

“America may hate politicians, they may hate Congress, they may even give Obama among the lowest ratings in modern history at this point in a Presidency. But the media has now sunk to even lower depths than the politicians.” – Wayne Allyn Root

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PPP Polls Hypothetical Colbert Americans Elect, Gary Johnson Libertarian Bids

January 18th, 2012 · 39 Comments

Public Policy Polling has the following results in their first national poll of 2012: Ron Paul matches Romney’s performance against Obama, also trailing by 5 points at 47-42. Beyond those two Newt Gingrich trails by 7 at 49-42, Rick Santorum has an 8 point deficit at 50-42, and Rick Perry trails by 11 points at [...]

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LP blog/poll: Are Libertarians too extreme?

September 29th, 2011 · 13 Comments

Latest poll at LP.org: http://www.lp.org/poll/which-one-of-the-following-libertarian-positions-strikes-you-the-most-as-being-too-extreme Which one of the following Libertarian positions strikes you the most as being “too extreme”?: -Ending prohibition of marijuana. -Ending the wars in Iraq, Afghanistan, and Libya. -Cutting government spending across the board. -Cutting taxes. -I think all of the above positions are too extreme. -I don’t think any of [...]

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New poll shows that a Green chancellor could be in Germany’s near future

April 17th, 2011 · 7 Comments

From MonstersAndCritics.com: For the first time, the Greens emerged a point ahead of the Social Democrats (SPD), considered the other main opposition party, with the pair combined scoring 10 per cent more than the current centre-right coalition. The Greens and SPD jointly scored 47 per cent in the survey by TNS Emnid, compared to just [...]

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Gallup: Americans Give Equally Low Ratings to Both Parties in Congress

April 4th, 2011 · 8 Comments

“Third Party, Independent and unaffiliated voters taken as a whole, disapprove of Congress more than voters who affilate with either of the two Stale Old Parties.”

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Independents Support Charlie Sheen over Sarah Palin for President, according to Public Policy Polling

March 17th, 2011 · 39 Comments

From Public Policy Polling via Third Party and Independent Daily: We’ve found a lot of brutal poll numbers for Sarah Palin so far in 2011: down in South Dakota, down in South Carolina, down in Arizona, only up by 1 point in Texas, only up by 1 point in Nebraska to name a few. But [...]

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Supporters of former Libertarian candidate Ron Paul heckle Cheney, Rumsfeld, call them war criminals at CPAC

February 13th, 2011 · 77 Comments

Via John Grooms at Atlanta’s Creative Loafing: Yesterday at CPAC, the big conservative conference in D.C., Ron Paul supporters and other libertarians in the crowd spoiled a sweet Bush-era reunion by launching a shouting match and protest action. First, Donald Rumsfeld was brought onstage, where CPAC was to present him with, unbelievable as it sounds, [...]

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Huffington Post on CPAC Straw Poll: Ron Paul wins Again! Gary Johnson tied for third place

February 12th, 2011 · 142 Comments

Huffington Post  reports on the results of the Straw Poll for President at the Conservative Political Action Conference: Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) came out on top in the much-anticipated 2011 Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll, according to Fox News. Human Events confirmed that the Republican congressman won the vote before the results were officially [...]

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LP Monday Message: What do you want from Santa Claus?

December 21st, 2010 · 3 Comments

A bit late, but here it is, reprinted in full:   December 20, 2010 Dear Friend of Liberty, Our world faces serious issues, and we’ll get back to those shortly. On a lighter note, we’ve put a new poll on our website: What do YOU want from Santa Claus this year? Tickets to Janet Napolitano’s [...]

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Only 29% of US Population (42% of registered voters) Participated in 2010 Mid-Term Elections

November 9th, 2010 · 16 Comments

Posted by Darcy Richardson at Uncovered Politics: ST. LOUIS, Nov. 4 — According to the Associated Press, 90 million Americans — only 42% of registered voters — pulled the lever for a congressional candidate on Tuesday. That’s just a hair under 29% of the US population of 310.6 million. “So much for the consent of [...]

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Poll: 31% of GOP Primary Voters Lean Toward Third Party if Palin is GOP Presidential Nominee

November 9th, 2010 · 12 Comments

Third Party and Independent Daily: From Rasmussen, via KintlaLake: A new Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that 31% of likely primary voters say they are at least somewhat likely to consider supporting a third-party candidate for president if former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin is the GOP nominee. That includes 17% who say it is [...]

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Constitution Party 2010 Election Highlights

November 9th, 2010 · 75 Comments

by Gary Odom National Field Director at constitutionparty.com   2010 Election   Brings Victories and Near Misses; Highlights Progress And Reveals Challenges As The Constitution Party Looks To The Future     Congratulations To Nevada…Again!    In 2006, the Independent American Party, the Constitution Party’s state affiliate in Nevada elected two of its candidates to office.  This year it doubled up and elected four:three [...]

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Wayne Root Profiled by AOL News today as 2012 Presidential Contender

November 5th, 2010 · 38 Comments

Email from Wayne Root to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Wayne Root Profiled by AOL News today as 2012 Presidential Contender Excerpt: Sports Handicapper Gambles on Becoming President Now that the Democrats have suffered a historic defeat on election day, a sports handicapper is doubling down on his goal of becoming President in 2012. Wayne Allyn Root is a [...]

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Ⓧ Voters: it’s not apathy, it’s non-consent

November 2nd, 2010 · 26 Comments

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 11/02/10 POC Thomas L. Knapp info@x2012.us 601-533-8542 begin_of_the_skype_highlighting              601-533-8542      end_of_the_skype_highlighting Ⓧ VOTERS: IT’S NOT APATHY, IT’S NON-CONSENT Coming out of the 2010 mid-term elections, it’s too early to compile exact statistics — but odds are a majority of Americans didn’t cast ballots on Tuesday. Some are disenfranchised by age restrictions, incarceration or other legal [...]

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NH: Libertarian Babiarz polling 2%

November 2nd, 2010 · 5 Comments

Concord Monitor: In the final WMUR/UNH election poll, 49 percent of likely voters say they will vote for Lynch, 41 percent prefer Stephen, 2 percent favor Libertarian John Babiarz, 1 percent prefer some other candidate, and 7 percent are undecided. The poll was conducted by the University of New Hampshire Survey Center, which interviewed 885 [...]

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Steve Kubby for City Council, South Lake Tahoe: ‘Get Out the Vote today!’

November 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Kubby for City Council: Win, lose or Draw…It was a great campaign – Special thanks to the guys who made this campaign such a terrific team effort: Kevin Takenaga, Beau Cain, Terry Floyd, Dana McLorn, and Wayne Allyn Root. Here are the poll results as they stand last check: Get out and vote! To find [...]

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Monds polls at 6% going into election, runoff possible

November 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

John Spink at Atlanta Journal-Constitution: In the race for governor, Republican Nathan Deal leads Democrat Roy Barnes 47 percent to 40 percent, with Libertarian John Monds getting the support of 6 percent. Seven percent are undecided, according to the poll by Mason-Dixon Polling & Research Inc. By law in Georgia, if no candidate gets 50%, [...]

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Liberty Point: Win or lose, Libertarians make a difference

November 1st, 2010 · No Comments

Brian Irving at Liberty Point: North Carolina’s Libertarian candidates are optimistic that regardless of the outcome of Tuesday’s election, their campaigns have made a difference. They are optimistic because of the reaction they’ve received from voters unhappy with the two major parties. “Voters are quite polarized this year, so my results are going to depend [...]

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