Says Lew:
The Minessota Senate race this year was a Weekly Standard dream: Republican neocon incumbent Norm Coleman vs. Democratic neocon challenger Al Franken. The war party couldn’t lose.…
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Ventura meets with advisers, will announce plans Monday night
By PJO on July 12, 2008 3:00 AM
The Minneapolis Star Tribune reports this morning that Jesse Ventura “met with advisers on Friday to map out what a quick leap into Minnesota’s U.S. Senate race might look like, although advisers say he still has not made a final decision.…
No Indiana gubernatorial run for Waterman
By PJO on July 12, 2008 2:53 AM
The AP reports Indiana GOP state senator John Waterman will not qualify for the ballot as gubernatorial candidate of “a newly formed Taxpayers Party,” which “would have required him to get more than 32,000 signatures from registered voters by June 30.”…
Louisiana state representative runs for Congress as independent
By PJO on July 12, 2008 2:52 AM
The Hill reports Louisiana Democratic state representative Michael Jackson, who challenged Democratic Rep. Don Cazayoux for renomination in Louisiana’s Sixth U.S. House District, has qualified to run for the seat as an independent.…
Catholic deacon considers Schriner for president
By PJO on July 12, 2008 2:51 AM
In a lengthy op-ed for Catholic Online, Roman Catholic deacon Keith Fournier, while praising Sens. John McCain and Barack Obama on several points, says he is considering alternative candidates.…
Libertarian Party, third-party and independent candidates for U.S. Senate react to FISA
By Administrative Team on July 10, 2008 1:25 PM
In a press release issued yesterday, the Libertarian Party said Barack Obama had a chance to stand for liberty bud didn’t. “Civil liberties were violated, and only 28 senators cared to see justice served,” said Libertarian Party spokesperson Andrew Davis, “and Barack Obama was not one of them.”…
Ventura will reveal Senate decision next week
By Administrative Team on July 9, 2008 1:02 PM
Even though the Independence Party of Minnesota has endorsed Stephen Williams for U.S. Senate, that doesn’t mean that former governor Jesse Ventura is out of the race.…
The ‘other’ candidates on economics
By Administrative Team on July 8, 2008 11:45 AM
From a particularly talented writer at the new Amateur Economists online magazine:
Polls show a large number of Americans are not satisfied with the choice they’re faced with this November: Obama or McCain?…
Ralph Nader: Obama running for Bush’s third term
By Administrative Team on July 7, 2008 1:04 AM
In a recent CNN interview with Rick Sanchez, independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader concurred with a Wall Street Journal editorial in saying that Barack Obama is “running for Bush’s third term.”…