May 7, 2026
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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 are here are the results…
Bob Barr – 29 votes (27%)
Steve Kubby – 27 votes (25%)
Mary Ruwart – 22 votes (21%)
Mike Gravel – 16 votes (15%)
Wayne Root – 7 votes (7%)
George Phillies – 4 votes (4%)
Michael Jingozian – 1 vote (1%)…
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 mixed with those of the rest of the folks in the room.…
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 and someone just sent me this video, which further highlights the deep animosity…
(I don’t get the “Dob Darr” part – are delegates planning to cast gag votes for Dob Darr or something?)…
Chuck Baldwin, the presidential candidate of the Constitution Party, just launched his campaign officially by pulishing his full site. Although it is by no means finished, it certainly gives us a few clues about his future campaign.…
Chuck Baldwin’s campaign Web site was just launched in full. It can be found at:
I’ll have more on that later.…
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 the nomination fight tomorrow.…
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 Jingozian, Steve Kubby, George Phillies, Wayne Allyn Root, and Mary Ruwart.…
Jake Porter has been elected as an alternate regional representative to the LNC. He has ended his quest for an at-large seat in order to support the candidacy of Susan Hogarth.…
Mary Ruwart spoke today at 12:30 p.m., local time. After the speech, several people wearing buttons for other candidates — Christine Smith, Root, and Barr — came to Mary’s booth and said they had been converted.…