October 24, 2026
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Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch
The eleven Green Party candidates on the ballot this year for US Senate netted a combined half million votes. The 510,000 votes is the highest combined total for Green Party Senate candidates since 2000, when Medea Benjamin won 326,000 votes for US Senate in California and Vance Hansen picked up over 100,000 in Arizona.…
David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog:
As Wes Benedict pointed out in a recent message, we had two U.S. Senate campaigns this year that were unusually successful, in terms of vote percentages.…
From the Libertarian Party blog analysis of the elections:
Currently we have 15 Libertarians for U.S. House who received over 5% of the vote. (That only counts races where a Republican and a Democrat both appeared on the ballot.)…
David Nolan at Libertarian Party blog:
FOX-11 in Tucson ran this three-minute statement on Sunday; they offered every candidate for a major office the opportunity to do this, but surprisingly few took advantage of it!…
Ronald Hardy at Green Party Watch:
There are 58 candidates running for the United States House of Representatives on November 2.
This is the second of three posts on Green Party House candidates, continuing with the Western portion of the United States.…
I received the following e-mail from Ian Gilyeat, Independent Senate Candidate in Arizona:
I’d like to invite you to cover my campaign and report on the traction and support occurring all across the state of Arizona. …
Email from Barry Hess:
Dear Friends, Family and Supporters;
A MAJOR shift has occurred in the thinking of Arizonans in the final weeks of the campaign.…
The denverpost.com asked Tom Tancredo if he supports an Arizona style immigration law for Colorado. This is his answer.
Yes, I strongly support Arizona-style laws to deal with a problem created by the federal government’s lack of enforcement of our nation’s immigration laws.…
Press release at LP.org:
WASHINGTON – Amid controversy over U.S. immigration policy, Libertarian Party Chair Mark Hinkle says the proper way to end illegal immigration is to re-legalize immigration.…