November 6, 2026
Your Premier Source on Third Parties and Independent Candidates Since 2008
(excerpt from) U.S. News & World Reports blog
Murkowski’s Win Gives Hope for Third Party Solution
by Susan Milligan / November 19, 2010
…Winning an election as a major party nominee is surely satisfying; capturing the seat because tens of thousands of people made the effort to write in one’s name [as Senator Lisa Murkowski did] is exhilarating.
…
from Ballot Access News
More States Elected Non-Major Party Nominees to Federal and State Office in 2010 Than in Any Previous Year Since 1922
November 19th, 2010
In the November 2010 election, eleven states elected people to federal or state office who were not nominees of either the Democratic Party or the Republican Party.
…
from Ballot Access News
Two Major Parties Now Have 73.5% of Registration, Perhaps Their Lowest Ever
November 18th, 2010
The twentynine states with registration by party, plus the District of Columbia, reported in October or November 2010 that 73.5% of all voters are registered Democrats or registered Republicans.
…
Sent to [email protected]: November 18, 2010 (ATLANTA) - In response to the recent debate surrounding the Transportation Security Administration?s use of Whole Body Image (WBI) scanners, as well as the two cases already recently filed against the TSA by the Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) and the Rutherford Institute, the Libertarian Party of Georgia announces today their public opposition to the TSA?s
…
From the Washington Post:
When Natasha Pettigrew, a Green Party candidate for the U.S. Senate, was killed while riding her bicycle two months ago, her mother, Kenniss Henry, filled in, campaigning throughout Maryland.
…
Ralph Nader at Nader.org:
By suddenly selling much more of the taxpayer owned stock in GM then Washington let on before Tuesday the Obama Administration has made it far less likely that it will fully recover the bailout money when the Treasury Department sells the remaining shares next year.…
Emailed to [email protected] by Dennis Mikolay:
THE FOLLOWING ARTICLE ABOUT THE NATURAL LAW PARTY APPEARED IN THE MONMOUTH
UNIVERSITY “OUTLOOK” ON SEPTEMBER 29, 2010.
——————————————————————–
WHEN POLITICS COMES NATURALLY
By Dennis “DJ” Mikolay
Whenever the public becomes discontent with government policy, the masses
start to recognize the ineffectiveness of the two-party duopoly.…
The Independence Party candidate for Governor of Minnesota this cycle hasn’t just disappeared into the woodwork. Instead, he seems to be shifting into the job of party-building.…
From the Fall 2010 Green Pages. Related article from the Libertarians: LP: Wherefore the urge to purge?
by Brent McMillan, Green Party Executive Director
When one crab tries to crawl up out of a bucket of crabs, the other crabs will reach up and drag the escaping crab back down into the bucket.…