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Tomorrow, my wife and I are planning to get and cast our absentee ballots for the November election. Although Connecticut is stuck in the 19th century and restricts legal access to absentee status, we are eligible as I will be out of town on business on election day, and my wife is disabled. On a whim, [...]
One of the unintended consequences of having the conventions so late, and with Texas’ ballot access law requiring candidates to file the necessary paperwork, is that (theoretically) neither McCain nor Obama will be on the Texas ballot this November. But Bob Barr will. Seen at Ballot Access News: Section 192.031 of the Texas election code says that political [...] 
One bone of contention between “small ell” libertarians (including, somewhat, myself) and the Libertarian Party is that the LP seems rather nutty and unlikely to ever be a particularly effective organization. I think Ron Paul might have similar thoughts. Buried in the hoopla over his alternate convention event in Minneapolis/St. Paul during the GOP Convention is [...] 
Seen at CNN’s Political Ticker: The former Georgia congressman — who left the Republican Party two years ago, citing differences over fiscal policy and concerns over civil liberties — was nominated on the sixth ballot at the party’s convention in Denver. So, am I the only person to wonder, for all that Ron Paul’s supporters are accused [...] 
A couple of days ago, there was confirmation that Democratic candidate for President, Mike Gravel, was joining the Libertarian Party. Quoting Third Party Watch: “I’m joining the Libertarian Party because it is a party that combines a commitment to freedom and peace that can’t be found in the two major parties that control the government [...]
So, in addition to the Democratic and Republican party presidential primaries, California also saw the Libertarian Party’s presidential primary on Super Duper Fat Tuesday. Third Party Watch shared some entertaining speculation about the results: However, it appears that Smith was beaten by “write-in votes.” The 12 ballot candidates received a total of 13,750 votes statewide, [...]
So, Ron Paul’s most loyal supporters have been promising that the Revolution would start any time now. First it was to be the Free State of New Hampshire. No, it was risk-taking Nevada that would throw its support to Ron Paul. No…contrarian Mainers would see the merits of Ron Paul. Well, now it’s [...]
Some of you may be aware of the Free State Project—a program by some “big-ell” and “small-ell” libertarians, frustrated with failing to achieve critical mass on the national scene, to get a bunch of similarly-minded folks to move to a smallish state, and use that as a base to influence local and state politics (and [...]
Seen at Libertarian Underground – An AP article appearing on the International Herald Tribune: It’s been overlooked in the hoopla surrounding Thursday’s Iowa caucuses and next week’s New Hampshire primary, but Wyoming Republicans will caucus Saturday and choose delegates to the national convention in September. Candidates have paid little attention to the state, though. Mitt Romney, Fred Thompson, Duncan [...]
Seen at Good Will Hinton: [M]any Americans believe Libertarians/libertarians (I’m making a distinction between those who belong to the Libertarian party and those who hold to libertarian ideologies) are outside of the mainstream in American politics. Some might even go so far as to call them nutjobs. I recognize that these are unfair and usually inaccurate [...] |
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