I will be liveblogging tonight’s vice presidential debate at http://pjoelection.blogspot.com/. While it’s obviously a major party event, I’ll try to keep up with Boston Tea Party vice presidential nominee Tom Knapp’s updates from outside as well.…
Posts published in October 2008
Florida poll: Barr 2%, McKinney 1%, Nader 1%
By PJO on October 2, 2008 11:29 AM
A Suffolk University/WSVN-7News Miami poll on the presidential race in Florida included this question: “There are 14 candidates for president on the Florida ballot. Of these, the major five candidates are: Republican John McCain, Democrat Barack Obama, Libertarian Bob Barr, Green Party Cynthia McKinney, and Ecology Party Ralph Nader.…
Libertarian Barr to speak at Notre Dame
By PJO on October 2, 2008 11:22 AM
Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr will speak at Indiana’s Notre Dame University on Friday, the AP reports. The event, “which is being sponsored by the College Libertarians of Notre Dame, is open only to Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College students and staff members.…
Ventura touts Barkley in Minnesota radio ads
By PJO on October 2, 2008 11:19 AM
The AP reports Minnesota Independence Party U.S. Senate candidate Dean Barkley is today launching two radio ads featuring former governor Jesse Ventura. Ventura “asks voters to send another ‘wake-up’ call by picking Barkley,” and “also touts Barkley’s record of accomplishment” during his brief service in the Senate in 2002.…
National Catholic Reporter looks at third parties’ role
By PJO on October 2, 2008 11:13 AM
A story to run in Friday’s edition of the National Catholic Reporter examines the role of third parties in U.S. politics. The piece offers a brief history of major third party movements, and basically endorses Instant Runoff Voting.…
L.A. Times blog: Gonzalez, Root ‘too risky’ for major parties to debate
By PJO on October 2, 2008 11:10 AM
A blog entry on the Los Angeles Times website says, “We probably won’t get to know much about Wayne Root and Matt Gonzalez during tonight’s vice presidential debate in St.…
Nader headed for Vermont
By PJO on October 2, 2008 11:07 AM
WCAX.com reports independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader will campaign in Vermont this weekend, with stops in Waitsfield and at the University of Vermont.
In other Nader news, Santa Cruz Sentinel columnist Mike Rotkin says the “essence of the Nader campaign for president, as is the case with any third party campaign in the U.S.,…
Cato’s Niskanen on the ‘case for a different Libertarian Party’
By PJO on October 2, 2008 10:29 AM
Cato Institute Chairman William Niskanen, a fine gentleman who had the (much larger) office three doors down from mine during my brief time at Cato, and who chaired the Council of Economic Advisers under President Reagan, makes “A Case For A Different Libertarian Party” in the latest Cato Policy Report.…
Actor Daniel Sunjata endorses Cynthia McKinney
By paulie on October 1, 2008 11:00 PM
H/T Green Party Watch…