October 6, 2026
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The Secretary of State’s website shows updated vote totals.
In Congressional District 2, the votes received by Green Malik Rahim and Libertarian Gregory Kahn made up more than the margin of difference between indicted Democratic incumbent “Dollar” Bill Jefferson and congressman-elect Joseph Cao.…
For anyone who missed it yesterday. All the clips are here. I am not done pasting them in this post, so other IPR writers are encouraged to update the post with the rest if they get to it before me.…
A few weeks ago, Ralph Nader‘s presidential campaign sent an email out to its subscribed supporters. It asked them to fill out a short survey about the top five most important issues to them politically.…
Arizona’s Phoenix New Times previews next Saturday’s Maricopa County Libertarian Party Convention thusly:
“Democrats drink pinot. Republicans drink whiskey. Libertarians drink at bars. Even better, the grumblety-peg curmudgeons host their political conventions at watering holes –- or at least our local cranks will at the Maricopa County Libertarian Party Convention today at Ticoz Resto-Bar.…
Several alternative candidates were on the ballot in two Saturday U.S. House races in Louisiana.
In the Second District race, won by Republican Anh Cao, Green Malik Rahim received 1,880 votes (2.8%) and Libertarian Gregory Kahn 548 votes (0.8%).…
Posted at LP.org by Andrew Davis:
As a political party, we run candidates every November that wish to be elected to office in order to push public policy in a Libertarian direction.
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Highlight:
Good news in just the title of the latest AP story. There are pages of google news articles from media outlets that published the AP headline: “Indicted Louisiana congressman tries to get re-elected” (That refers to Malik’s opponent, the Democrat incumbent who is facing corruption charges, partly for having $90,000 in cash in his refrigerator.)
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The follow is from Congressional Quarterly. For those of you wondering how this relates to third parties, Mike Gravel was a candidate for the Libertarian Party’s nominee for president this year.…
This is an open thread for discussion of the LNC meeting. To view Paulie’s excellent live coverage of the event, click here.…