From the Bob Bird campaign via [email protected]
With somewhere around 50-55,000 absentee ballots yet to be counted (as of Sunday, November 9), Bob has garnered just short of 9,000 votes.…
Independent Political Report
Greens mobilize for Malik Rahim for Congress
By paulie on November 10, 2008 11:02 AM
IPR’s previous report on Malik Rahm and links to past coverage here.
Posted by Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch.
Louisiana turned out one of the better showings for Cynthia McKinney on November 4, which may have been due to her embracing of the Reconstruction Platform and strong post-Katrina positions.…
Steve Kubby: The Libertarian wing of the Libertarian Party
By paulie on November 10, 2008 10:56 AM
Steve Kubby was a candidate for the Libertarian Presidential nomination in 2008, and the runner up for the party’s VP nomination in 2008 and 2000. He was also the party’s candidate for Governor of California in 1998.…
Libertarian Schansberg could run as Republican next time
By PJO on November 10, 2008 3:49 AM
Indiana’s Jefferson Evening News and Tribune reports that Eric Schansberg, the Libertarian U.S. House candidate in the state’s Ninth District in 2006 and 2008, says he is “not opposed to running as a major party candidate” in the future.…
Newspaper says Minnesota Independence Party must mull reason for being
By PJO on November 10, 2008 3:43 AM
The Minneapolis Star Tribune runs an editorial reflecting on the 2008 elections in Minnesota and nationwide, including some reflections on the state’s Independence Party. The newspaper writes, “After another round of weak showings and indistinct messages by its candidates, the IP’s reason for existence is no longer clear.…
Jay unlikely to run for president again
By PJO on November 10, 2008 3:40 AM
The South Florida Sun-Sentinel today has a feature on this year’s Boston Tea Party presidential nominee, saying that “when he loses, Charles Jay loses big. … The number of votes Jay won in the three states in which he was on the ballot — Florida, Colorado and Tennessee — topped 2,300.…
South Carolina newspaper criticizes Nader
By PJO on November 10, 2008 3:36 AM
In an editorial entitled “Nader’s Noxious Emission” this morning, South Carolina’s Charleston Post and Courier writes in part, “Ralph Nader’s visionary leadership as a consumer advocate has saved countless lives through auto-safety improvements forced in large part by his bold activism.…
Post-election thoughts from Mike Munger
By paulie on November 9, 2008 10:08 PM
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Libertarian ticket 88 votes shy of 500,000
By PJO on November 9, 2008 10:02 PM
With some precincts still not reported from Alabama, Alaska, Georgia, Illinois, Mississippi, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington, and write-in votes and provisional ballots yet to be tallied, the Libertarian Bob Barr-Wayne Allyn Root ticket has 499,912 votes across the U.S.,…