September 4, 2026
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Posted at Ballot Access News
The last time any minor party or independent candidate (for office other than president) received as many as 1,000,000 votes was in New York in 1970, when James Buckley received 2,179,640 votes on the Conservative Party line.
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Via Jinchi:
He didn’t exactly cost John McCain the election, but if the current numbers hold, it looks like Bob Barr may have cost John McCain victories in North Carolina and Indiana.
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As previously reported, Georgia Libertarian US Senate candidate Allen Buckley may swing the race into a runoff, which could in turn turn the Senate filibuster-proof after a special election in December.…
Posted at Delaware Libertarian:
A year ago, the GOP’s Georgia senatorial incumbent Saxby Chambliss seemed one of the few safe Republican seats in the chamber. Nor did a lackluster field of Democrats vying to take him on seem to offer any hope of changing that.
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Faye Coffield, an independent running for Congress in Georgia (who was also Cynthia McKinney’s private investigator at one time), is challenging the consitutionality of Georgia’s ballot access laws.…
In a pair of press releases, Libertarian Party of Alabama chair Stephen Gordon addresses the Wall Street bailout proposal that was narrowly defeated yesterday in Congress, as well as the gas shortages currently taking place in Georgia and several Southeastern states.…
Writing in Huffington Post, Bob Barr says
There’s not a dime’s worth of difference between Senator McCain and Senator Obama. The viewers of this first presidential “debate” missed the opportunity for a true debate because the viewpoints I represent were not raised.
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Posted at http://votetruth08.com/
Thursday, 25 September 2008 20:14
For immediate release Contact: John Judge
September 25, 2008 202-584-1021[Washington, DC] Green Party Presidential Candidate and former Georgia Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney shares the concerns of Georgians who are calling for the Attorney General to commission an independent investigation into the handling of the Troy Anthony Davis prosecution by both the Savannah Police Department and the Chattam County Prosecutors Office.
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21 September 2008 Here: 329 members. Facebook: 461. Today we received the final vote to make the national committee unanimous. We now have a state affiliate in Kansas.…