The Reform Party’s Roque “Rocky” De La Fuente, whose name will appear on the ballot in twenty states on Tuesday and is waging write-in campaigns in more than a dozen other states, filed an emergency writ of mandamus against California’s Secretary of State late yesterday demanding […]
“They gave this election dignity,” asserted actor and debate moderator Ed Asner in his closing remarks at Tuesday night’s Free and Equal third-party presidential debate in Boulder. The 86-year-old Emmy award-winning actor and former president of the Screen Actors Guild was referring, of course, to […]
As Americans head to the polls later today, it’ll be interesting to see if a genuine dark-horse candidate — somebody running outside the duopoly, someone nobody expected nor even heard of, for that matter — could startle the pundits with an unexpectedly strong showing. Given […]
Former South Dakota Sen. Larry Pressler’s quest to “end the poisonous partisanship in Washington” received another last-minute boost yesterday when his independent candidacy for the U.S. Senate was endorsed by the Rapid City Journal, the state’s second-largest newspaper. Pressler, who is currently running third in […]
While many seasoned political observers believe that Democratic nominee Dave Domina, a wealthy trial lawyer, has already thrown in the towel in his uphill battle against Republican Ben Sasse in Nebraska’s lopsided U.S. Senate race, little-known Dan Buhrdorf — the longest of long-shots — wants […]
Tom Ervin, an independent candidate for governor of South Carolina, announced that he is dropping out of the race and throwing his support behind Democratic nominee Vincent Sheheen. In making his surprise announcement earlier this afternoon, the wealthy Greenville attorney and radio station owner, accompanied […]
The Lincoln Journal Star, Nebraska’s second-largest newspaper, has endorsed independent candidate Jim Jenkins in that state’s U.S. Senate race. In endorsing the wealthy Callaway rancher and businessman in his uphill battle against Republican Ben Sasse and Democratic nominee Dave Domina, the Journal Star maintained that […]
The two wealthy candidates running outside the duopoly in the Massachusetts gubernatorial contest this autumn have failed to catch fire, according to a Boston Globe survey released Friday. Evan Falchuk, a health care executive and founder of the United Independent Party who has been stuck […]
According to Alex Pappas of the Daily Caller, independent U.S. Senate hopeful Greg Orman of Kansas has added veteran Democratic consultant Mike Phillips to serve as a spokesman in his bid to unseat Republican Sen. Pat Roberts, a three-term incumbent who’s fighting for his political […]
An internal poll released late yesterday suggests that independent candidate Eliot Cutler might be picking up momentum in his bid to unseat Republican Gov. Paul LePage in Maine’s three-cornered gubernatorial contest. Cutler, a Harvard and Georgetown-educated lawyer who sunk more than $1.7 million of his […]
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