There is already a rumor starting that Former Rep. Virgil Goode, who lost his seat last Tuesday, may be joining the Constitution Party before his time is up in Congress, joining the Constitution Party afterwards, or running for President in 2012.…
Posts published in November 2008
IPR traffic report: beating the competition
By paulie on November 8, 2008 5:46 PM
We are currently at over 340,000 visits and over 907,000 page views since the site debuted on May 20, 2008. If we can avoid too steep of a post-election drop, a million page views by the six month mark (Nov.…
IPR readers predictions: how’d we do?
By paulie on November 8, 2008 4:58 PM
On election eve, IPR polled readers to see how they saw the elections turning out. Here is how their predictions stacked up against the results:
bsharitt:
Overwhelming Obama victory with increased democratic majorities.
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LP.org: candidates who guaranteed ballot retention for their state parties
By paulie on November 8, 2008 10:17 AM
From the election results page at LP.org, here is a list of candidates who kept their state parties on the ballot and how many votes they got:
David Herbert Wyoming US House 11,028 4.9%
Nathan Santucci Nevada State Assembly District 22 14,930 22.3%
Stan Jones Montana Governor 8,698 3.1%
William Bryan Strange, III Texas Judge, Court of Criminal Appeals Place 9 1,041,499 18.1%
Robert Underwood Massachusetts United States Senate 94,745 3.2%
(Mass.…
Alexander Cockburn’s post-election interview with Ralph Nader
By paulie on November 8, 2008 9:55 AM
from the Nov. 7 issue of Counterpunch. org:
Talking to Nader about the Campaign, on November 5.
AC: In 2000,you drew nearly 10,000 people to a speech in Portland, Oregon.…
Krikorian thanks supporters, announces 2010 run
By Ross Levin on November 8, 2008 1:41 AM
A final press release from the David Krikorian for Congress (in 2008) campaign:
David Krikorian would like to thank you for your support!
He would also like to congratulate all his fellow candidates in the November 4th election in all races.…
A new party with an old name elects its first candidate for office
By Ross Levin on November 8, 2008 1:35 AM
The Modern Whig Party – which seeks to cater to disenchanted Democrats and Republicans – has announced that it has its first win under its belt only months after forming.…
Libertarians elected and re-elected to office
By paulie on November 7, 2008 9:22 PM
From http://www.lp.org/2008-general-election-results/all
Bob Mills Maine Biddeford City Council 301 votes 79.0% reelected
Bruce Reichert Florida Collier County Soil & Water Board Seat 1 ran unopposed
J.…
Greens elected and re-elected to office
By paulie on November 7, 2008 8:58 PM
posted by Green Party political director Brent McMillan in a comment at Ballot Access News
Wins for the Green Party, what we know so far:
Arkansas
Richard Carroll was elected to Arkansas State Legislature, District 34.
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