UPDATED AND REVISED.
Here are the vote percentages, by state, that each of the alternative parties has to have in order to have the same ease of nominating candidates as the Democrats and Republicans do.…
Posts published in October 2008
Root hints at 2012 in Fox News interview
By PJO on October 30, 2008 2:39 AM
Libertarian vice presidential nominee Wayne Allyn Root made another appearance on Fox News’s Your World with Neil Cavuto earlier this week. Root said in part, “We have got socialism under Republican George Bush with a bailout bill that nationalizes our banks and Wall Street, and now we will go all the way to Marxism with our good friend Barack Obama.…
Socialist Workers candidate Calero: ‘I’m a worker’
By PJO on October 30, 2008 2:29 AM
The Recorder, the newspaper of Central Connecticut State University, interviewed Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Roger Calero, who said of his candidacy, “I’m a worker — a worker who has been active in different struggles and in support for organizing unions.…
McKinney certified as Missouri write-in candidate
By PJO on October 30, 2008 2:25 AM
Green Party presidential nominee Cynthia McKinney has been certified as a write-in candidate in Missouri.…
Live streaming and moderator set for debate between Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader
By paulie on October 29, 2008 7:56 PM
According to an email from the Baldwin campaign,
The City Club of Cleveland debate, moderated by Dan Moulthrop of Cleveland’s PBS radio and television stations, will be streamed live by ideastream (http://www.wviz.org/…
Green Party candidate for Congress polling near 10%
By Ross Levin on October 29, 2008 6:44 PM
The Green Party’s candidate to represent Illinois’s 11th Congressional district, Jason Wallace, is polling at 9% in a recent SurveyUSA poll. Wallace is a political newcomer and veteran of the war in Iraq.…
Reason Magazine: Who’s Getting Your Vote?
By paulie on October 29, 2008 6:13 PM
As Campaign 2008 entered its home stretch, Reason Magazine asked a variety of policy wonks, journalists, thinkers, and other public figures to reveal for whom they are voting this fall, for whom they pulled the lever the last two times around, whether this is the most important election in their lifetimes, what they’ll miss most about the Bush administration, and which past president they’d most like to have waterboarded.…
Arkansas Democrat-Gazette issues strong endorsement of Green Party State House District 39 candidate Richard Carroll
By paulie on October 29, 2008 5:52 PM
Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch.
Although the Green Party candidate Richard Carroll is the only candidate on the ballot, and the newspaper notes that clearly, nonetheless the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette’s endorsement of Richard Carroll for the Arkansas State Legislature is a big deal.
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Time and place set for debate between Bob Barr, Chuck Baldwin and Ralph Nader
By paulie on October 29, 2008 5:41 PM
As IPR already reported, there will be another debate between the alternative Presidential candidates who are listed on enough state ballots to win the election, to take place tomorrow.…