Nick Troiano, a 25-year-old independent campaigning in Pennsylvania’s 10th congressional district, released his first television ad earlier today. Titled “Washington’s a Zoo,” Troiano’s light-hearted, 30-second commercial features the young candidate standing between an elephant and a donkey and railing against paralyzing partisanship in the Beltway. […]
Voters have never elected a Libertarian to the Ohio legislature, but Chad Monnin hopes to change that come November. Monnin, running for the district 19 seat, reported having more than $72,000 in cash on hand at the end of the most recent reporting period. That […]
Eight years after civil rights attorney Rich Whitney of Carbondale shocked the political world by polling an eye-opening 361,336 votes — or more than ten percent of the vote — against Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich and Republican challenger Judy Baar Topinka, enabling the Green Party […]
Political satirist Randy Credico, who finished a distant third in last Tuesday’s Democratic gubernatorial primary in New York, has thrown his support to the Green Party’s Howie Hawkins in the general election. Credico, who unofficially garnered 19,045 votes — or slightly less than four percent […]
North Providence mayor Charles Lombardi has endorsed independent candidate Ernest Almonte in the race for Rhode Island State Treasurer. A former Auditor General for the Rhode Island General Assembly, Almonte is locked in a one-on-one race against Democrat Seth Magaziner. The city of 32,000 residents is […]
The Rhode Island Moderate Party has elected to replace their gubernatorial nominee, James Spooner, for medical reasons. Mr. Spooner has reportedly undergone surgery and will be unable to continue his campaign. That’s where things get interesting. The Moderate Party has recruited well-known candidate Robert Healey […]
Independent gubernatorial candidate Eliot Cutler is hitting the air with a new ad aimed at turning around his struggling campaign. The spot touts the recent endorsement of sitting U.S. Senator, and fellow independent, Angus King. “We need a 21st century governor for a 21st century […]
Navy veteran Mary Buzuma is polling the difference between Republican Gov. Rick Snyder and Democratic challenger Mark Schauer, a former congressman and ex-Minority Leader of the State Senate, in Michigan’s tightly-contested gubernatorial contest. According to a recent Public Policy Polling survey of 687 likely voters, […]
In remarks prepared for a worldwide radio audience later this week, U.S. Senate hopeful Dan Buhrdorf of Lincoln criticized Ben Sasse’s “naïve aggression” and warned that his Republican rival’s blustering policies of confrontation and brinkmanship would put the United States on a permanent and precarious […]
Some seventy years after his death on this day in 1944, the spirit of legendary Senator George W. Norris, a progressive and fiercely independent-minded Republican lawmaker portrayed by future President John F. Kennedy in his 1957 Pulitzer-prize winning “Profiles in Courage,” is being rekindled in […]
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