June 30, 2026
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The Sacramento News & Review published a lengthy profile of Green Party presidential hopeful Cynthia McKinney this Sunday, characterizing her as a straight-talking challenger to the status quo:
McKinney has been campaigning throughout Northern California, in the Bay Area and Humboldt and Sonoma counties, where Green Party support is strong.
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Alyson Kennedy, the Socialist Workers candidate for Vice President recently met with immigrants in Postville, Iowa, the site of a recent ICE raid that arrested 389 abattoir workers (about 17% of the town’s population).…
Many radicals assumed that so long as Wayne Allyn Root and Bob Barr could not combine for at least 50% after several ballots, the nomination would eventually go to Mary Ruwart.…
Wayne Allyn Root just won the vice-presidential nomination. I don’t have solid numbers here, but I will post them when I get them.
So it’s final.…
Bob Barr will be the 2008 Libertarian presidential nominee. Ballot-Access News has reported full vote totals for each round of voting, with the final decisive vote being:
Bob Barr: 324
Mary Ruwart: 276
NOTA: 26
The order of elimination was:
1st Round: Jingozian eliminated (endorsing Gravel), Smith eliminated (opposing Barr)
2nd Round: Kubby eliminated (endorsing Ruwart)
3rd Round: Phillies eliminated (no endorsement)
4th Round: Gravel eliminated (according to a comment on BAN, endorsing Barr over Ruwart if Root eliminated
5th Round: Root eliminated (endorsing Barr, going for VP)
6th Round: Barr wins nomination
The VP selection process is currently ongoing.…
Mary Ruwart just nominated Steve Kubby for Vice-President. Her comments seemed to indicate that she thought a “radical” would balance the Bob Barr ticket very well.…
Former congresscritter Bob Barr just secured the nomination of the Libertarian Party, shortly after defeating party-activist Mary Ruwart by 8% or 48 votes.
Barr was endorsed on the 5th ballot by Wayne Root, who was hoping for the Vice-Presidential nomination, though that has yet to be voted upon.…
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.…