In an editorial this morning, North Carolina’s Durham Herald-Sun writes, “One encouraging outcome of Tuesday’s election, one that might be easy to overlook, was Mike Munger’s showing in the race for governor.…
Independent Political Report
December elections
By paulie on November 9, 2008 12:06 AM
Most of the elections wrapped up on Tuesday, with only a few close contests still up in the air as votes are being tallied. However, a few will take place next month.…
Baldwin could possibly break records for CP Presidential campaigns
By Trent Hill on November 8, 2008 11:38 PM
The previous record for most votes for a Constitution Party presidential campaign was Howard Phillips’ 1996 campaign in which he recieved 184,820. Chuck Baldwin is within view of this record right now.…
Chuck Baldwin: ‘Buy a gun’
By paulie on November 8, 2008 10:56 PM
Recent Constitution Party presidential candidate Chuck Baldwin, writing in USA Tomorrow.
“He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy one.” (Luke 22:36 KJV)
Most of us are aware that the heroic actions of a brave woman at the New Life Church in Colorado Springs, Colorado a few days ago saved the lives of perhaps scores, or even hundreds, of people.
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Less Antman on restoring the Libertarian brand name
By paulie on November 8, 2008 10:38 PM
by Less Antman. Also posted on my blog, among others.
In 1985, the Board of Directors of Coca-Cola committed one of the biggest marketing gaffes in history.…
Minor Parties and Independents elected to state legislatures
By Trent Hill on November 8, 2008 7:19 PM
The Vermont Progressives re-elected four state legislators this year, but lost two seats. The Progressive party legislators who were re-elected are Susan Davis, Sarah Edwards, David Zuckerman, and Sandy Haas.…
The rumors start
By Trent Hill on November 8, 2008 7:01 PM
There is already a rumor starting that Former Rep. Virgil Goode, who lost his seat last Tuesday, may be joining the Constitution Party before his time is up in Congress, joining the Constitution Party afterwards, or running for President in 2012.…
IPR traffic report: beating the competition
By paulie on November 8, 2008 5:46 PM
We are currently at over 340,000 visits and over 907,000 page views since the site debuted on May 20, 2008. If we can avoid too steep of a post-election drop, a million page views by the six month mark (Nov.…
IPR readers predictions: how’d we do?
By paulie on November 8, 2008 4:58 PM
On election eve, IPR polled readers to see how they saw the elections turning out. Here is how their predictions stacked up against the results:
bsharitt:
Overwhelming Obama victory with increased democratic majorities.
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