Christine Smith leaves the LP
Christine Smith, who won six delegates in her bid for the Libertarian Party’s presidential nomination, has announced that she is officially leaving the party.... Read more.
Root is really excited to be VP
Bob Barr’s campaign website currently makes no mention of the nomination of Wayne Allyn Root for Vice-President, but Root’s former Presidential campaign... Read more.
State Senator John Waterman considering an Independent run for Governor of Indiana
State Senator and former Sullivan County Sheriff, John Waterman, is exploring an independent run for governor of Indiana. Water says that voters are “disgruntled”... Read more.
IPR Readers Poll: Barr and Kubby win debate
Following last night’s Presidential debate at the LP convention in Denver, we posted a poll for IPR readers. Over 100 people voted in this unscientific survey... Read more.
Some impressions from the debate
I sat in on our live chatroom during the LP debate tonight and it was interesting to see the reactions people were having. What follows is a mixture of my own impressions... Read more.
What happens if Barr is nominated?
Clearly some people are so strongly against Bob Barr that they will not accept him as the LP nominee under any circumstances. We heard it during the live chat tonight... Read more.
Our chatroom for the LP Convention
We’ve just added a chatroom to the homepage of Independent Political Report.
We’re going to leave this room active tonight for the debate and then through... Read more.
Token update: seven debate, eight speeches
So far, according to the Barr campaign’s website, the following candidate have qualified for the debate on C-SPAN tonight…. Bob Barr, Mike Gravel, Michael... Read more.
C-SPAN: Six candidates will debate tonight
According to the C-SPAN website, there are six candidates who will participate in tonight’s Presidential debate to be televised at 9pm Eastern. It doesn’t... Read more.
Gravel has enough tokens to debate
Just got word that former Alaska Senator Mike Gravel will be participating in the official televised debate. Brian Hamel, the Gravel campaign’s official blogger... Read more.