If you’re voting in Alaska this November – or voting by absentee ballot for candidates in Alaska – what are your minor party and independent options?…
Posts published in October 2008
Ralph Nader urges courts to challenge Constitutionality of corporate personhood
By paulie on October 27, 2008 4:37 PM
Found at Huliq News:
Following is a statement by Independent Presidential Candidate Ralph Nader:
The word “corporation” or “company,” or the words “political party,” do not appear anywhere in the U.S.
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Ralph Nader campaign: “some of our best videos thus far”
By paulie on October 27, 2008 4:29 PM
Posted at VoteNader blog. More here.
Ralph Nader on Wall Street
Nader Press Corps on the Road
7 Things You Can’t Say in ‘08: In Memory of George Carlin
Tom Morello: This Land
Three Way Presidential Debate: Obama, McCain, and Nader
Vice-Presidential Candidate Matt Gonzalez on Biden-Palin “Debate”
Three Way Vice Presidential Debate: Palin, Biden, Gonzalez
Society of Apathetics: Start Here (Interactive)
Why I Support Nader – Ashley Sanders
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Green Party update
By paulie on October 27, 2008 4:06 PM
-In a press release from the national office:
Green Party becomes the first party to endorse the Standing For Voters pledge to defend election integrity
• Green national candidates McKinney and Clemente sign on, along with other Green candidates; Greens cite their leadership role in the 2004 Ohio and New Mexico recounts after evidence of vote theft
• Greens condemn GOP efforts to disqualify legitimate voters in the 2008 election
WASHINGTON, DC — The Green Party of the United States has become the first political party to endorse the Election Integrity Pledge promoted by Standing For Voters (http://www.StandingForVoters.org
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Minor Party candidates in Pennsylvania
By Ross Levin on October 26, 2008 7:50 PM
If you’re voting in Pennsylvania this November – or voting by absentee ballot for candidates in Pennsylvania – what are your minor party and independent options?…
Green McKinney seeks White House despite lack of attention
By PJO on October 26, 2008 6:48 PM
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution profiles Green presidential candidate Cynthia McKinney, saying that while the past campaigns of the “firebrand congresswoman, twice sent packing by voters,” once “drew either unbridled support or raw antipathy, this one does something truly shocking — it draws shrugs.”…
Socialist Workers ticket campaigns in Texas, Georgia
By PJO on October 26, 2008 6:42 PM
The Militant reports on the recent activities of Socialist Workers Party presidential candidate Roger Calero and vice presidential candidate Alyson Kennedy. Calero campaigned in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley October 14-15, “speaking to more than 130 students at college meetings in two Valley cities.”…
Libertarian Horning running for governor in Indiana
By PJO on October 26, 2008 6:39 PM
In a basically positive piece, the Indianapolis Star says Andy Horning, “the face of Indiana’s Libertarian Party,” is “by now a political veteran. His face, still boyish at 50, and his polished public speaking style are familiar to anyone paying attention to Indiana’s elections for the past decade.”…
Minnesota Senate hopeful Barkley’s ex-wife plans to vote for him
By PJO on October 26, 2008 6:32 PM
The Minneapolis Star Tribune profiles ex-senator Dean Barkley of Minnesota, who is seeking to return to the U.S. Senate as the Independence Party candidate. The newspaper says Barkley “drew support from 18 percent of likely voters in the most recent Star Tribune Minnesota Poll — making him a force that matters in the Senate race and eliciting the sincerest form of flattery from his opponents.…