In what is perhaps the clearest and most persuasive video that the Gary Johnson for President campaign has released, the Libertarian nominee explains in simple terms why the war on drugs has failed. The drug issue is an excellent hook to use when reacting out […]
It’s official! The Green Party nominated Dr. Jill Stein as its candidate for President over the weekend at the party’s national convention in Baltimore. Following a state-by-state roll call vote in which Stein came out with 193.5 delegate votes to 72 votes for actress and […]
Presumptive Green Party nominee Jill Stein has selected anti-poverty activist Cheri Honkala as her running mate. Honkala is National Coordinator for the Poor People’s Economic Human Rights Campaign, described as “one of the country’s largest multi-racial, inter-generational movements led by the poor and homeless.” She […]
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 […]
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