The Sunshine State News ran an article on Monday about the number of Independent and Third Party candidates on the ballot in Florida in 2010.
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Posts published in June 2010
Libertarian Candidate Withdraws and Endorses Republican
By Trent Hill on June 16, 2010 6:52 PM
Libertarian Party candidate for state representative Tom Gleinser has withdrawn from the race and endorsed the Republican challenger in an apparent attempt to unify the anti-incumbent vote.…
Green Party Mayor Gayle McLaughlin Profiled In Richmond Confidential
By Trent Hill on June 16, 2010 6:44 PM
Gayle McLaughlin is currently the most prominent elected official in the Green Party as the Mayor of Richmond, California–a city with a population of over 100,000 people.…
Eliot Cutler Polls 7% in Maine
By Trent Hill on June 16, 2010 6:35 PM
Maine is one of the rare states in which there is a recent history of voting for third party candidate and independents. Eliot Cutler is an independent candidate for Governor of the Pine Tree State.…
New PPP poll has Green candidate for governor in Illinois at 9% support
By Ross Levin on June 16, 2010 1:50 PM
Following a poll on the Senate race in Illinois that had the Green candidate at 14 percent, a poll released today from PPP shows Green candidate for governor Rich Whitney – who received about 10.5 percent of the vote in 2006 – garnering 9 percent of the vote. …
Former Libertarian Party Vice Presidential Nominees Lose Major Party Primaries
By Trent Hill on June 16, 2010 2:54 AM
Ballot Access News reports on election results from two stories we covered in the previous months. Both Nancy Lord and Art Olivier, former vice presidential nominees of the Libertarian Party in 1992 and 2000 respectively, lost their bids to win primaries in major parties on June 8th.…
Other Polls 9% in South Carolina Senate Race
By Trent Hill on June 15, 2010 9:10 PM
Rasmussen Polls released a new poll on June 15th for the U.S. Senate race in South Carolina. The major party nominees are Jim Demint, the Republican incumbent, and Alvin Greene, the Democrat and political newcomer.…
Article On Kathie Glass, Libertarian Party Candidate for Governor of Texas
By Trent Hill on June 15, 2010 9:01 PM
Kathie Glass was just nominated last weekend by the Libertarian Party to run for Governor of Texas. Glass beat out fellow Libertarian and candidate Jeff Daiell.…
Green Senatorial Candidate in Illinois Polls 14%
By Trent Hill on June 15, 2010 6:06 PM
A new poll from Public Policy Polling on the Illinois Senatorial contest has been released. The poll chose to include the Democratic, Republican, and Green nominees, but not other nominees who will likely qualify for the ballot.…