On the ballot as the Constitution Party candidate, former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode is pulling 9% of the vote in his home state, according to this poll from Public Policy Polling. Goode’s presence on the ballot is bringing Romney down seven points to 35%, while […]
Meeting in Cleveland’s Municipal Auditorium on this day in 1924, the Conference for Progressive Political Action (CPPA) formally nominated the ailing Robert M. La Follette of Wisconsin for president by acclamation. Gathering on the 148th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, the CPPA convention was […]
Michael Kicinski, who polled nearly a third of the Republican primary vote on Tuesday while losing to U.S. Rep. Richard L. Hanna in New York’s 22nd congressional district, wasted little time in announcing that he will remain in the race as a third-party candidate. The 52-year-old Kicinski, […]
Longtime Prohibitionist Andrew Jackson Houston, son of the legendary Sam Houston, the hero of San Jacinto and first president of the Lone Star Republic, died in a Baltimore hospital on this day in 1941. Two months before his death, the 87-year-old Houston had been appointed […]
If you thought all of the Presidential primaries were over, think again. On Tuesday, June 26, the voters in the state of Utah will head to the polls to cast their votes in the now meaningless Republican preference primary. At stake are 40 delegates, to […]
Alfred K. Stern, a former chairman of the Illinois State Housing Commission who once polled 16,529 votes as the American Labor Party’s nominee for the U.S. House in Manhattan’s twenty-first congressional district, died in Prague at the age of 88 on this day in 1986. A multimillionaire investment broker who […]
Insurgent antiwar candidate Eugene J. McCarthy easily won the New York Democratic primary on this date in 1968. Coming only two weeks following Robert F. Kennedy’s tragic assassination after narrowly winning the California primary on June 4, McCarthy at first refused to actively campaign in the […]
If Gary Johnson or Virgil Goode needed any explanation as to why they ought not waste much time trying to win over the most devoted of the “Ronulans” out there, they should take a look at this video. Created by a Paul-supporter who goes by […]
With less than a month to go before Greens will gather in Baltimore to officially name a candidate, presumptive nominee Jill Stein is working overtime to qualify for federal matching funds. Unfortunately for the Green Party, Stein’s campaign is just passing the half-way point as […]
I took a lot of heat in the 100+ comments to my recent editorial about the failure and fraud that was the Ron Paul campaign of 2012. In the piece, which you can read here, I argued that anyone still blindly worshiping Dr. Paul should […]
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