Yesterday, Illinois election officials determined that the names of four presidential candidates will be removed from that state’s ballot due to a failure of the parties to collect sufficient petition signatures. The state requires minor party and independent candidates to file 25,000 valid petitions. Under […]
Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson, the Justice Party’s founder and presidential nominee, was a guest on Up with Chris Hayes on Saturday. Up, for anyone not familiar, is MSNBC’s weekend morning program. The motivation for Anderson’s invite seemed, primarily, to get someone on […]
Failing to secure enough delegates to capture the Green Party’s presidential nomination last weekend at the Green national convention in Baltimore, actress and activist Roseanne Barr decided not to make an appearance at the event. Instead, following the state-by-state balloting that lead to the nomination […]
Gathering in Cleveland for its third annual convention, the League for Independent Political Action (LIPA) adopted a comprehensive platform and endorsed the Socialist Party’s Norman M. Thomas for the presidency on this week in 1932. Led by the brilliant but rumpled left-wing philosopher John Dewey […]
Libertarian Party presidential nominee Gary Johnson will make a campaign swing through North Carolina over the weekend, scheduling a day of events in conjunction with the LP’s gubernatorial candidate Barbara Howe. The pair will participate in a “Liberty 5K Fun Run” in the morning, then […]
Last week, on the eve of their nominations, Green Party presidential candidate Jill Stein and her running mate Cheri Honkala appeared on Democracy Now with Amy Goodman.
Former Virginia Congressman Virgil Goode, the Constitution Party’s nominee for President, was polling at 9% in his home state according to a survey released last week. However, it seems that the ex-lawmaker has had to rely on significant help from the Independent Green Party of […]
Public Policy Polling reports that former New Mexico governor Gary Johnson is still in double-digits in his home state. Polling at 13%, Johnson’s support is remarkably widespread and draws almost equally from Obama and Romney in the state. In fact, as PPP notes, among partisan […]
Former Salt Lake City mayor Rocky Anderson reminded everyone he was still in the race yesterday, announcing the selection of Luis Rodriguez as his Vice-Presidential running mate on the nascent Justice Party ticket. The Anderson campaign describes Rodriguez as “a leading Chicano writer, speaker, gang […]
Barbara Howe, former Libertarian Party state chair and current gubernatorial candidate in North Carolina, registered the support of 9% of respondents in Public Policy Polling’s latest survey of 775 North Carolina voters taken from July 5th to the 8th. This is in line with a […]
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