Michael McGuire reports in the Libertarian Examiner:
Since the 1950s, the major divisions on America’s right flank have been between traditional conservatives and libertarians.
Generally speaking, the libertarian wing made early strides in academic circles while conservatives tackled the electoral process with more success.
Ron Paul’s Saturday victory at the Conservative Political Action Conference may signal the tide [...]

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The Bangor Daily News is a newspaper in Bangor, Maine, which has former Green Party Vice Presidential candidate Pat Lamarche as a columnist and where the Greens have had moderate success.  In an editorial, the paper stated:
It’s a long shot, but the two-party standoff would end if another party asserted itself. The Tea Party may [...]

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LP blog:
LP Texas chairman Pat Dixon speaks about “spoiling” in the Texas Tribune, January 25, 2010:
Dixon doesn’t care if his candidates take votes away from the major parties. You can’t spoil an election if the mainstream parties are already rotten, he says. “[Spoiling] would be a concern if there were candidates [...]

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IPR note: Although they now run as Republicans, both Paul and Johnson either have been or are members of the Libertarian Party.
By JOHN DISTASO
in the Union Leader:
Another potential 2012 presidential candidate is headed to first-in-the-nation New Hampshire.
Former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson, who has been described as a “libertarian-leaning” Republican in the mold of [...]

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Pat Buchanan was the Reform Party presidential candidate in 2000, and Ron Paul was the Libertarian Party presidential candidate in 1988. Posted in The American Conservative:
The decades-long campaign of Ron Paul to have the Government Accountability Office do a full audit of the Federal Reserve now has 313 sponsors in the House.
Sometimes perseverance does pay [...]

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In 1988, Ron Paul was the Libertarian nominee for President of the US. Congressmen Paul has also created projects such as Ron Paul’s Campaign for Liberty.

On November 19, the contents of Ron Paul’s HR 1207 were amended into the Financial Regulatory Reform bill of the House Committee on Financial Services. HR 1207 provides that the GAO should audit the Federal Reserve.

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Over at The Hill, some of the nation’s top political commentators, legislators and intellectuals offer insight into the biggest question burning up the blogosphere today:

Independents and third parties have been playing a bigger role in recent elections. With poll numbers for both parties on the decline, is there a real opening for independent/third party candidates?

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2008 Libertarian Party V.P. nominee Wayne Root’s book Conscience of a Libertarian is climbing in its Amazon sales rank. It is currently

#4 in Philosophy > Politics
#5 in Politics > U.S.
#1 in Law > Taxation
#1 in Law > Business
#24 in Politics

Here are current Amazon sales rankings for books written by past LP presidential nominees and would-be [...]

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In 2008, Mike Gravel ran for president as a Democrat, then as a Libertarian.  Adam Kokesh is running for Congress as a Republican with the support of many Ron Paul supporters and Libertarians.  Kokesh has been involved with the Libertarian Party in the past.  In the following Youtube clip, Mike Gravel endorses Adam Kokesh in [...]

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Matt Reichel, a Green Party candidate for Congress in Illinois, will be having a fundraiser with Green Party candidate for Illinois governor Rich Whitney on September 30th. For supporters who can’t make it, there will be a moneybomb that same day.

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Bernie Quigley writes in The Hill:

The most startling statistic to come out this month is the latest Washington Post/ABC poll that shows 43 percent of Americans now consider themselves to be independents.
Much of the celebrity thrill seems to be gone, as Wall Street Journal commentator Fouad Ajami said it would, with the hip new [...]

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The Federal Election Commission has released its “2008 presidential popular vote summary for all candidates listed on at least one state ballot.” The results:
Barack Obama (Democrat) 69,498,516 [52.93%]
John McCain (Republican) 59,948,323 [45.65%]
Ralph Nader (Independent, Peace and Freedom) 739,034 [0.56%]
Bob Barr (Libertarian) 523,715 [0.40%]
Chuck Baldwin (Constitution/Reform/U.S. Taxpayers) 199,750 [0.15%]
Cynthia McKinney (Green, Independent, Mountain) 161,797 [0.12%]
Write-In [...]

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Press release from Free and Equal sent to contact.ipr@gmail.com
Ralph Nader and Ron Paul, two of the most outspoken political leaders of our time, don’t agree all that often. But one thing they both understand is that the American political system is rigged against independent and third party candidates.
Restrictive ballot access laws across the nation prevent [...]

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Evan Ravitz, an advocate for direct democracy, recently posted a video of Ralph Nader endorsing the idea of national ballot initiatives in the United States.  He does not explicitly say that he supports former Senator Mike Gravel’s National Initiative for Democracy plan, but he does say that he supports a “binding national referendum.”

Other third party [...]

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For weeks now Rand Paul has been considering a run for US Senate in Kentucky, anticipating that Sen. Bunning will retire. This week he let it be known that he would be making a major announcement on national television, on the Rachel Maddow show on Thursday. Now, a mere one hour before the show, I [...]

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