By Tiffany Holland
Former vice presidential candidate and retired U.S. Sen. Joe Lieberman visited Roanoke College on Wednesday night to discuss the partisan politics of Congress, which he feels are detrimental to the country and said the country needs more strong third-party candidates.
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He also said there should be a “strong emergence of a third party in this country.”… Read more ...
Excerpt from an article by Christopher Peleo-Lazar in the National Journal:
… Read more ...Indiana’s laws for independent candidates are some of the toughest in the nation. In 2000, Ralph Nader did not reach the two percent threshold to get on the ballot, though Pat Buchanan did (Nader, running as a write-in, actually won more votes than Buchanan won for being on the ballot).
Christopher Keating in the Hartford Courant’s CapitolWatch:
… Read more ...Consumer activist Ralph Nader, who has tangled publicly with both Chris Dodd and Joe Lieberman, is quite pleased that Lieberman will be leaving the U.S. Senate after 24 years.
Democrats praised Lieberman throughout the day on Wednesday, but Nader did not join in on the accolades.
Email from Jeff Vanke to contact.ipr.gmail.com:
On today’s CNN.com, here, Jeff Vanke’s campaign and his balanced budget are featured in a story on independent candidates in 2010.
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Jeff Vanke for Congress, Independent, 6th District of Virginia
1007 1st Street SW, Suite D, Roanoke, VA 24016
(540) 915-3786
www.JeffVanke.com
Excerpt from that story:
… Read more ...(L)et’s break out of the two-party mold and take a look at some of the independent candidates across the country who are surging or struggling as Election Day approaches.
From Tom Jensen at Public Policy Polling’s blog:
… Read more ...There’s one thing Democrats, Republicans, and independents in Connecticut agree on: they want this to be Joe Lieberman’s last term in the US Senate. Only 24% of voters in the state say they would vote to reelect Lieberman in 2012 to 66% who say they will vote to replace him.
Statistical guru Nate Silver weighs in on the brouhaha in the blogosphere since Thomas Friedman posted his op-ed on the idea of a third party candidacy in 2012 (for a second time).
… Read more ...There have been 16 Presidential elections since World War II: in only one instance, 1992, was there a third-party candidate (H.
For Independent candidacies seriously looking to win a major race with three candidates, there are generally two paths to victory.
Path 1: The Jesse Ventura model. In 1998, Jesse Ventura won a race for Governor with 37% of the vote. Republican Norm Coleman took 34% and Skip Humphrey took 28%. This type of race features three competitive candidates, who all have a decent shot at winning the election.… Read more ...
In a stunning upset, Tea Party activist and Sarah Palin-endorsee Joe Miller appears to have upset incumbent Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) in Tuesday’s Republican primary election. Though there are still around ten thousand absentee ballots yet to be counted, analysts agree it is unlikely Murkowski will be able to close her 1,668 vote deficit.… Read more ...
Email from Newsmax.com to contact.ipr@gmail.com:
Sen. Joe Lieberman tells Newsmax that he will probably seek re-election in 2012 and will likely run again as an independent.
Newsmax chief Washington correspondent Ronald Kessler asked the senator, who lost the Democratic primary in 2006 and was elected as an independent in the general election, if he could see himself running as a Republican.… Read more ...
Dr. John Mertens, a candidate for Senate in Connecticut seeking the endorsement of various minor parties, recently starred in an ad put on the air by the Progressive Change Campaign Committee.
The Committee did not endorse Dr. Mertens, or even mention his run for Senate in the ad, but Dr. Mertens did talk about how he is the chair of the Connecticut for Lieberman Party, a party formed solely to elect Joe Lieberman to the Senate in 2006, but later taken over by his progressive enemies.… Read more ...
Believe it or not, there are two independents in the United States Senate. One is Bernie Sanders, a democratic socialist from Vermont who caucuses with the Democrats and is closely associated with the Progressive Party of Vermont. Although he is closely associated with two parties, he is a member of neither and is a bona fide independent. … Read more ...
Following Monday’s historic defeat of the “billionaire bailout for Wall Street,” the Senate took up the fight to fleece the taxpayer to an even greater degree — adding “sweeteners” to the bill to soften congressional opposition.
Rejecting public opinion polls that show a vast majority oppose the principle of a bailout, the Senate passed the bigger and badder bill by a vote of 75-25.… Read more ...