June 2, 2026
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In the November issue of Fast Company magazine, Carlos Watson considers the prospects of a third party based on a fiscal conservative / social liberal alliance:
Sarah Palin is rumored to be mulling the idea of starting a third party, pulling together social and fiscal conservatives alienated from the GOP.
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Hat tip to Ballot Access News for the story.
(excerpt from) The York Daily Record
Write-ins beat candidates on ballot in some towns
In Franklintown, the mayor ran a write-in campaign and won with just one vote.…
Consumer advocate Ralph Nader has run for President of the US on the Green Party line, and most recently as an independent. The following open letter was posted at votenader.org…
from Ballot Access News
South Carolina Files Brief in Opposition to Green Party Arguments in Ballot Access Case
On November 16, attorneys for the state of South Carolina filed this brief in the lawsuit South Carolina Green Party v South Carolina State Election Commission, pending in the 4th circuit.
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Posted at onthewilderside. This story is a press release sent out on 11/17/2009 by the Green Party of Connecticut.
Green Party of Connecticut officials announced today that they would welcome Ralph Nader into the 2010 race for U.
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H/T to d.eris on this one. The Burlington Free Press reports that there might be yet another progressive third party in Vermont. Read the full story here.…
d.eris writes on Poli-Tea:
Arguably, one of the most important strategic questions for independent and third party activists is how to motivate non-voters in future elections.
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From a blog posting today by the Secretary of the 2008 Libertarian Party Platform Committee (i.e. this reporter):
GP+LP fusion won’t send the right electoral signal unless there is a clear national-level statement of our common ground.
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Excerpts from a posting today on the Libertarian Party blog:
Joe Kennedy, a member of the Libertarian Party, is running to fill the unexpired Senate term of the deceased Massachusetts Senator Edward Kennedy.
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