By Dr. Eric Ostermeier “Eric Ostermeier, Ph.D., J.D., is a Research Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey School of Public Affairs and author of the nonpartisan Smart Politics blog https://smartpolitics.lib.umn.edu.”…
Posts published in November 2022
An IPR Analytic Report
For the country’s three visible third parties, we present Federal Elections Committee data on total receipts since the start of 2021, cash on hand at the start of the year, money received during 2022, money spent since the start of 2022, and cash on hand at the end of the “Pre-Election Period”.…
Three Pacific Coast state counties voted earlier this month to support leaving their respective states in a sign of recent local support for secessionist efforts. Residents in Morrow and Wheeler Counties in Oregon and San Bernardino County in California have voted to leave and either join a pre-existing state or create a new one entirely.…
Cara Schulz, LNC Political Infrastructure Strategist, has apparently been terminated by the LNC, effective Monday, 11/21/2022. From other reports, at least two other LNC staffers were also let go at the same time. …
Constitution and other third party results in the same races in Utah.
UTAH ELECTION RESULTS 2022
US Congressional District 2
Candidate % Popular Vote Popular Vote
CHRIS STEWART REPUBLICAN 62.52% 141361
NICK MITCHELL DEMOCRATIC 31.21% 70582
JAYMAC MCFARLAND UNITED UTAH 03.32% 7514
CASSIE EASLEY CONSTITUTION 02.95% 6660
US Congressional District 3
Candidate % Popular Vote Popular Vote
JOHN CURTIS REPUBLICAN 65.67% 154086
GLENN J.…
This will be a live blog from when it starts. It is starting. Minor electronic challenges, not with the LNC people. Meeting called to order at 9:09.…
The Libertarian National Committee reports! More Libertarians have been elected to public office across America:
Deborah Brandon – John Swett Unified School District Board – Contra Costa County, CA
Thomas Laehn – County Attorney – Greene County, IA
Nathan Madden – School Board – Buckeye Union High School District – Buckeye, AZ
Aron Lam – Mayor – Keenesburg, CO
Scott Boman – Detroit Community Advisory Council, District 4 – Detroit, MI
Brandon McGlone – City Council – Lancaster, KY
Bill Schult – City Council – Crescent Springs, KY
Lex Hannan – Magistrate / Justice of the Peace – Boone County, KY
Shannon Denniston – Magistrate / Justice of the Peace – Montgomery County, KY
David Harryman – Magistrate / Justice of the Peace – Montgomery County, KY
Chad Finkenbiner – City Council – Orchard Grass Hills, KY
Brandon Wright – City Council – Cave City, KY
Jeremy Dick – Board of Education – Bennington, NE
Brad Sherman – City Council – Sidney, NE
Alex Vlach – Lower Loup Natural Resources District (Subdistrict 8) – Ord, NE
Cole Brodine – School Board – Elm Creek, NE
Jeremy Westengaard – City Council Ward 4 – Gretna, NE
Stephen Coffman – Township Trustee, Liberty, ID
Terry Coffman – Township Board – Liberty, ID
Luke Jackson – School Board District 5 – Martinsville, ID
**Grant Miller – City Council – Tulsa, OK – Oklahoma requires “mathematical certainty” in order to avoid a new election.…
The Workers Party of Massachusetts broke 50,000 total votes and had a solid legislative showing in the midterm elections held earlier this month.
Organized in early 2020, the Workers Party is an independent electoral socialist party not openly associated with any broader organization.…
Not quite all the way to the present but does go back a considerable way. Left is membership. Right is income.
And now that I have your attention, we are receiving comments with nasty attacks and claims that there are secret cabals that, for example, actually run the Libertarian Party.…