November 8, 2026
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The Party for Socialism and Liberation has completed its petitiong in Iowa, collecting over 1,900 signatures in a state that requires 1,500. According to the latest release on the matter, petitioners recieved generally positive response during their drive:
Members of the Chicago branch of the PSL made weekend trips to Iowa City, Des Moines, Waterloo and Davenport to collect signatures.
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Joy Waymire, a California Libertarian activist and chair of the recently created Boston Tea Party of California, is preparing a 2012 run for the presidency. She has created a Facebook page and a website for her campaign.…
Boston Tea Party presidential candidate Charles Jay offers a different take on the Fannie/Freddie mess than the LP’s Bob Barr — who says the government “has to do something” to bail out the two floundering GSEs that effectively socialize risk while privatizing profit.…
The Communist Party USA has published an editorial today outlining its perspective on this year’s presidential election. Much like 2004’s position paper (published in clarification of a forgery distributed by opponents of John Kerry), Eye on the Prize stresses removing the “ultra-right” from power, and lavishes praise on the nature of the Obama campaign if not its candidate:
Barack Obama is not a left candidate.
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This article cites how and why a Wisconsin Republican state legislator became an independent.
State Rep. Jeff Wood, who represented northwest Wisconsin’s 67th District as a Republican in the last legislative session, decided against filing for re-election Tuesday as a candidate of the Grand Old Party.
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“I think right now, doing nothing would not be advisable,” said Bob Barr when asked about whether the federal government should bail out the government-sponsored enterprises, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac.…
The Libertarian Party’s daily poll asks “How would you rate Ben Bernanke’s performance as Federal Reserve Chairman?”
As of the time of this posting, 196 people had responded, with only 2 saying “excellent.”…
Former U.S. Senator Dean Barkley (I-MN) has decided that he will seek to take back his seat from Norm Coleman. Barkley had been aggressively working to convince Jesse Ventura to run, but with Ventura’s announcement that he won’t be a candidate Barkley is jumping in.…