Earlier this month, Ralph Nader was nominated by the Peace and Freedom Party of California.  That is how he achieved ballot access in California, and Nader will be on the Peace and Freedom Party ballot there, instead of being listed as an independent.  A video of his acceptance speech was posted by polidocproductions on YouTube.  [...]

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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 Oregonian’s politics blog says the Peace Party, “which may be the vehicle for getting Ralph Nader on the ballot” in the state, came up “short about 2,500 valid signatures for qualifying.” A spokesman for the secretary of state’s office “said backers of the party have indicated they will continue gathering signatures.” In [...]

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The Independent Party of Delaware nominated the Ralph Nader-Matt Gonzalez ticket at its state convention this week, and also cross-endorsed Democrat Thomas Savage for state insurance commissioner “in recognition for his support for universal health care,” WBOC.com reported.

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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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Reason’s Dave Weigel recently asked Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr if he would debate other third-party candidates. He said no, and reasoned that the Libertarian Party — unlike the Greens or Constitution Party — is a truly “national” party.
Because of that, because we are far ahead of the other third parties in Zogby’s very legitimate, [...]

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Rhodes Cook, a senior columnist for Larry Sabato’s Crystal Ball ‘08, takes a detailed look at the role of, and potential impact of, third party candidates in this year’s presidential election. The 850-word piece, which contains several tables of historical data, is worth reading in full. Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Cynthia McKinney, and [...]

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The AP reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader “plans a rally in Minneapolis on the final day of the Republican National Convention. Nader’s campaign said the rally will be a call to action for opening the presidential debates to candidates like him. The rally is planned for the night of Sept. 4th at [...]

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Last week, IPR reported that Ralph Nader would be holding a fundraiser in Toronto to solicit donations from the American expatriate community there. Today, the National Post describes a scene at last night’s event that demonstrates just how enthusiastically the Presidential candidate was received by the locals:
After his speech, Mr. Nader called upon Matthew [...]

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