Third Party Watch

The New York Times’ Julie Bosman writes:

In the $700 billion bailout plan for the financial system, Mr. Nader, now on his fourth presidential run, has finally found a real-life event to illustrate what he has made a cause of his career.

“Oh yeah, it’s got everything,” Mr. Nader said in an interview after the rally. “Taxation [...]

Steve Duin, writing in The Oregonian, remarks that “at 74, Nader’s stamina, like his anger, shows no sign of fading. He has no intention of abandoning the stage to presidential candidates who don’t share his standards of fairness, his advocacy for single-payer national health insurance, or his disdain for compromise.”

And he quotes Ralph Nader on [...]

The Caucus, the political blog of the New York Times, devotes this posting to Sunday night’s third-party debate (see article below, too). Noting that Ralph Nader (Independent), Cynthia McKinney (Green Party), and Chuck Baldwin (Constitution Party) are expected to show up, the Times goes on to elaborate on the one person who apparently will [...]

Ballot Access News

C-SPAN will broadcast the October 19 debate between Ralph Nader, Cynthia McKinney, and Chuck Baldwin, although it is not yet known if it will be broadcast live. The debate will be Sunday evening, October 19, at Columbia University in New York city. The moderator will be Amy Goodman of Pacifica Radio. It is [...]

Hofstra University on Long Island is the site of the final presidential debate Wednesday night. Until then, the campus is alive with student activities, including historical reenactments. The irony of the situation is captured ontheWilderside.net:

Just finished watching an exchange between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both 3rd Party candidates. Lincoln did not mention [...]

The following is a guest article by Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader:

Rolling the Dice on Derivatives
By Ralph Nader

The derivatives markets of today have become a high stakes casino of unimaginable magnitude. Wall Street’s bets have gone bad, and now the whole financial system is in peril. In a best-case scenario, it appears, the taxpayers will [...]

We’ve noted before the race in Indiana’s 9th congressional district, where Libertarian Dr. Eric Schansberg is running against incumbent Rep. Baron Hill (Democrat) and former Rep. Mike Sodrel (Republican). When the local Republican chair proposed a debate between the candidates while hooked up to lie detectors, Schansberg readily agreed. He now writes [...]

Richard Cooper is the former chair of the Libertarian Party of New York, a Ron Paul delegate, and a Bob Barr presidential elector. Like so many others, he is incensed that the National Rifle Association would snub Bob Barr, who is a member of its board of directors and who has an [...]

by Jonathan Cymberknopf

This 2008 election cycle I have been doing a lot of browsing through the internet looking at various Third Party web sites or so called Independent sites searching for news you normally don’t hear in the mainstream media since I decided to vote for someone other than Obama and McCain.

The crazy thing I [...]

Owing to the unfortunate smear articles here against the Constitution Party, its time to clarify the CP name here… Bill Shearer style.

While there have been many critical articles on the CP, lets start with one written previously by Andrew Davis- he quotes the whole CP Preamble starting off, or does he?
Let’s look at that one [...]

Janine Hansen, the IAP candidate for State Senate, is campaigning hard in her district, as she reports:

My radio ads started on October 8th in Elko, Winnemucca and Ely—which covers most of the district. I have enclosed the written copy of the radio ads. If you would like to hear the recorded versions they are on [...]

For some of you Constitutionalists and other Patriots who might not see Chuck Baldwin’s name on your ballot and confused on whether writing in his and Darrell Castle’s name would count as a vote- here is a list of states where Mr. Baldwin will have write-in status:

Arizona
California
Connecticut
Georgia
Indiana
Maine
Montana
New Hampshire
New York
Pennsylvania
Texas

The list of write-in states can be [...]

Independent presidential candidate Ralph Nader (Princeton ‘55, Harvard Law ‘58) took the occasion of his speech at Dartmouth College to slam the political apathy of Dartmouth students. According to the Dartmouth News:

Nader noted that fewer than 10 of the approximately 40 audience members appeared to be Dartmouth students. He criticized the “sterile political debate [...]

Here’s a spirited interview by Neil Cavuto on Fox News of Wayne Allyn Root, the Libertarian candidate for Vice President. Cavuto does his best to get Root to admit it hurt to have Bob Barr offer his position on the ticket to Ron Paul, but Root insists he came up with the idea.

Root was [...]

Here is a transcript of Bob Barr’s recent interview on NPR, with an audio feed if you prefer to listen to the interview. The Libertarian Party’s presidential candidate explains, among other things, his opposition to the “bailout from hell.”

Sunnyvale, CA —Oct. 9, 2008—Eighteen Libertarian candidates for Congress in California today issued a joint statement opposing the current financial bailout and asking whether the votes for it were openly bought with campaign contributions.  They released a table of data (below) from OpenSecrets.org showing how the bailout votes of their incumbent opponents correlate suspiciously with [...]

According to the Associated Press, the National Rifle Association just endorsed John McCain. As the Bob Barr campaign noted, John McCain has an abysmal record with respect to Second Amendment rights while Barr’s record is impeccable.

The NRA rates Barr, one of their own board members, with an A+ rating. McCain has earned a [...]

In Indiana’s 9th congressional district, Libertarian Dr. Eric Schansberg is running against incumbent Rep. Baron Hill (Democrat) and former Rep. Mike Sodrel (Republican). According to his website, he’s found a Republican proposal he likes:

On Wednesday, Dr. Eric Schansberg agreed to a debate proposal from 9th District Republican Party Chairman Larry Shickles. Shickles proposed that [...]

The following is a media release from the Barr presidential campaign:

www.BobBarr2008.com
Interview Contact: Steve Sinton
Phone: (404) 536-8038

McCain’s Call for Yet Another Bailout Must be Opposed, Says Barr
In Debate, McCain Once Again Shows His ‘Big Government’ Colors

Atlanta, GA – “So far this year, the federal government has spent or loaned nearly $2 trillion to bailout Wall Street, [...]

Jason Pye reports the following at the the Barr campaign site:

Let’s take a look at how the NRA feels about Sen. John McCain.

In 2001, NRA President Wayne LaPierre said, “Is it possible that John McCain thinks you have too much freedom?” According to NewsMax, LaPierre was angry over advertisements McCain appeared in for Americans for [...]

Bob Barr’s campaign says New Hampshire voters should not have a choice of two Libertarians to vote for in November.

Campaign manager Russell Verney says that’s because the national party already chosen their one Presidential candidate.

Bob barr is the official nominee of the libertarian party and is going to be on the New Hampshire ballot on [...]

Ballot Access News

On October 7, the U.S. Supreme Court denied Bob Barr’s application for a place on the Louisiana ballot. The U.S. Supreme Court has not granted an injunction, putting anyone on a ballot, since October 1990, when it ordered Cook County, Illinois, to put the Harold Washington Party on the ballot for county office.

This from independent candidate Ralph Nader’s presidential campaign:

As part of its get-out-the-vote effort, the Nader/Gonzales Campaign is adding 22 offices and nearly 50 field-staff staff to its base of thousands of volunteers this week, aiming at securing votes in 49 states. A map of all office locations is available at www.votenader.org.

Recent polls indicate that a [...]

Okay, so the October 7 debate is history, but another one is coming up on Wednesday, October 15, and it promises to be yet another titillating edge-of-your-seat battle between national socialist candidate Tweedledum and national socialist candidate Tweedledee.

So, here is how the Nader presidential campaign celebrated last night’s debate. Pretty funny and innovative. [...]

In Indiana’s 9th congressional district, Libertarian candidate Dr. Eric Schansberg’s share of the vote has increased from 5% to 7% in the past month. This is according to SurveyUSA polls conducted for Roll Call, a Capitol Hill newspaper, and WHAS-TV in Louisville. During the same time period, Democratic incumbent Baron Hill has greatly [...]