According to CNN
Although Democrats gained a decisive majority in the U.S. Senate on Tuesday, their hopes are fading for a filibuster-proof 60 seats.
Four hotly contested Senate races hang in the balance: Alaska, Georgia, Minnesota and Oregon.
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Posts tagged as “Georgia”
Georgia Libertarian Allen Buckley will probably send US Senate race into runoff
By paulie on November 5, 2008 2:22 PM
Posted at Ballot Access News
With 96% of Georgia’s precincts reporting, the U.S. Senate results are: Chambliss (R) 49.9%, Martin (D) 46.7%, Buckley (Libt.) 3.4%. Georgia is the only state in which no one can be deemed elected to any statewide post (other than president) without 50% of the vote (also, Vermont has that rule for Governor, and Louisiana has it for state office, but not federal office).
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Two Libertarians each get over one million votes
By paulie on November 5, 2008 1:18 PM
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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Bob Barr, Ron Paul may have cost McCain a few close states
By paulie on November 5, 2008 2:13 AM
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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Libertarians tipping the scales: Allen Buckley in Georgia Senate race entering the big party mudbowl
By paulie on November 3, 2008 4:00 PM
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.…
Libertarian tipping the scales: Allen Buckley may force a run-off in Georgia US Senate race
By paulie on October 28, 2008 12:38 AM
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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Georgia independent challenges ballot access laws
By Ross Levin on October 8, 2008 2:41 PM
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.…
Libertarian Party of Alabama Chair Stephen Gordon speaks out about gas price gouging laws, gas shortages, and the Wall Street bailout proposal
By paulie on September 30, 2008 1:00 PM
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.…
Libertarian Presidential candidate Bob Barr on the ‘debate that wasn’t’
By paulie on September 27, 2008 2:37 PM
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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