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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From The Business Word. H/T Cody Quirk: …David Flaherty, president and CEO of Magellan Data and Mapping Strategies, a Louisville, CO, pollster that works for Republicans around the country. In a phone interview, Flaherty said polls that show John Hickenlooper winning the gubernatorial race are using demographics and turnout numbers that incorrectly skew their results [...]

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From http://www.uncoveredpolitics.com/: Charlie Crist: Ninth on the Ballot, First in Your Heart? by Austin Cassidy: Charlie Crist supporters will need to do a little extra digging on Tuesday when they head to the polls. Normally, Crist’s name would appear first or second on the ballot as the nominee for the Republican Party. In the Spring, [...]

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LifeNews.com reports The latest Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of likely voters in Colorado shows Hickenlooper with a 47% to 42% lead over Tancredo, a former GOP congressman. Maes, the failed Republican candidate whose campaign has died due to scandals and other problems, gets the support of 5 percent of voters — just enough to prevent [...]

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Jessica Fender in the Denver Post: Would-be governor Tom Tancredo and his surrogates have run a full-court press on GOP rival Dan Maes in recent weeks, snaking supporters out from under the struggling candidate and upping pressure for Maes to exit the three-way race. With the former Republican congressman within single digits of Democrat John [...]

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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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In Maine’s gubernatorial race, it appears that Independent candidate Eliot Cutler has all the momentum.  Republican front-runner Paul LePage has maintained a weak lead with roughly 33% support in the polls, while support has begun to erode for Democrat Libby Mitchell.  But support for Cutler has doubled over the last month, leaving him poised to [...]

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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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Darcy Richardson at Uncovered Politics: The poll, conducted between October 18 and October 21, showed Rubio, an early darling of the Tea Party movement, leading with 39.6 percent of the vote to 33.3 percent for Crist, who broke with his party in April to run without party affiliation. Democrat Kendrick Meek, whose candidacy has failed [...]

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More polling news from the Tancredo campaign: Another poll has been released and the news just keeps getting better. This time the poll comes from the left-leaning Public Policy Institute Poll and it has us within 3% points of Hickenlooper: 47% to 44% with Maes dropping to an all-time low of 5%. This is within [...]

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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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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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Ballot Access News: This SurveyUSA poll for the statewide races in Georgia shows Libertarian nominee John Monds at 8%. It also shows the Libertarian nominee for State Schools Superintendent at 10%. Thanks to Art DiBianca for the link. And from a press release sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com: Libertarian Candidate has strong showing! The race for Georgia’s [...]

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New poll today at LP.org (open for voting): What is the main reason you are voting Libertarian this fall?: -Democrats have failed to end the wars. -I’m opposed to the new health care plan. -Republicans talk small government but deliver the opposite. -We need a change from the status quo in Washington. -I almost always [...]

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TPID: From the Portland Press Herald: A dramatic shift appears to have occurred among voters in Maine’s gubernatorial race and in one congressional contest, according to a new independent poll released Thursday.  Independent Eliot Cutler moved up substantially to a statistical second-place tie with Democrat Libby Mitchell, who lost support compared with earlier polls. Cutler’s [...]

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Several stories at TPID today about the Constitution Party: CO-Gov: Progressives Debate Import of Tancredo’s Third Party Candidacy From Political Chili: Over at The Huffington Post, liberal blogger Jessica Corry is making “The Liberal Case for Tom Tancredo.”  According to Corry, Tancredo’s victory “could mean a handful of policy goodies long championed by liberal progressives.”  [...]

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Dave Schwab at Green Party Watch: The City Wire reports on a new poll including Arkansas Green Party candidates Jim Lendall for governor and John Gray for US Senate: In the U.S. Senate race, Boozman’s margin over incumbent U.S. Sen. Blanche Lincoln has shrunk to 13 points as he now holds a 49-36% lead. Independent [...]

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Here is the latest e-mail appeal from Tom Tancredo. I post only the first part because below where I cut it off is an embeded video. My campaign’s Road to Victory Money Bomb is running strong, and we are in a dead heat! According to Rasmussen, we are within 4 points of John Hickenlooper. Even [...]

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This is from Tom Tancredo’s latest e-mail. I’ll look for a link to the official story. The latest poll numbers are so good I wanted to let you know immediately.  The most recent Rasmussen poll now has us closing the gap on Hickenlooper to 8 points.  This is unbelievable news!

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From Ballot Access News: A Fox News Poll released several days ago for the Colorado gubernatorial election shows these results:  Hickenlooper, Democrat, 44%; Tancredo, Constitution, 34%; Maes, Republican, 15%; others and undecided 7%.  The share of the vote for the Republican nominee, Dan Maes, has been dropping with each new poll.  If he polls less [...]

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