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What happens if Barr is nominated?

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?)…

Links on the Baldwin campaign site

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.…

Our chatroom for the LP Convention

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.…

Token update: seven debate, eight speeches

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.…

‘Bin-Laden partner’ endorses Barr, Barr accepts

After failing to receive enough tokens to enter tonight’s debate, Daniel Imperato publicly endorsed Bob Barr. Barr accepted.

If Barr had attended last night’s “unofficial and all-inclusive” debate, he would have known that Imperato claims to have been in business with the bin-Laden family.…

Ruwart led field with debate tokens

Unofficial numbers and rankings:

  1. Mary Ruwart (94)
  2. Wayne Allyn Root (93)
  3. Bob Barr (92)
  4. Mike Gravel
  5. George Phillies
  6. Steve Kubby
  7. Mike Jingozian

Earlier, IPR reported that six candidates will participate in tonight’s debate.…