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	<title>Third Party Watch</title>
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	<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Chuck Baldwin on &#8216;the best and worst of 2008&#8242;</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/chuck-baldwin-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/chuck-baldwin-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:27:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Campaign 2008</category>
	<category>Constitution Party</category>
	<category>Chuck Baldwin</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/chuck-baldwin-on-the-best-and-worst-of-2008/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Chuck Baldwin reflects on his presidential campaign as the candidate of the Constitution Party, noting that it took him and his family over 30,000 miles in more than 30 states.

	His &#8220;best&#8221; nominations from the campaign include Ron Paul, Lou Dobbs, and the John Birch Society.  See here for the Birch Society&#8217;s appreciative response.

	His &#8220;worst&#8221; [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Has Bob Barr become an ally of the gay community?</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/has-bob-barr-become-an-ally-of-the-gay-community/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/has-bob-barr-become-an-ally-of-the-gay-community/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 14:09:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Libertarian Party</category>
	<category>Bob Barr</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/has-bob-barr-become-an-ally-of-the-gay-community/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	In The Huffington Post, Emma Ruby-Sachs advises the gay community to set its sights high with the Obama Administration and seek repeal of the Defense of Marriage Act.  And she cites Libertarian presidential candidate Bob Barr as to why this is desirable:

	In law school I met a number of libertarians, many of whom have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Nader cuts Obama&#8217;s lead over McCain with Arab-Americans by only 1%</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/nader-cuts-obamas-lead-over-mccain-with-arab-americans-by-only-1/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/nader-cuts-obamas-lead-over-mccain-with-arab-americans-by-only-1/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 13:54:07 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Campaign 2008</category>
	<category>Libertarian Party</category>
	<category>Independent Candidate</category>
	<category>Ralph Nader</category>
	<category>Presidential Race</category>
	<category>Bob Barr</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/07/nader-cuts-obamas-lead-over-mccain-with-arab-americans-by-only-1/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	This report comes from the Washington Report on Middle Eastern Affairs:

	ON OCT. 28, the Arab American Institute released the results of a new Zogby International poll of Arab-American voters showing that Democratic candidate Barack Obama&#8217;s substantial lead among Arab American voters had almost doubled since September. The poll also found that Obama&#8217;s lead over McCain [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas corrects clerical error in Presidential Returns</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/06/texas-corrects-clerical-error-in-presidential-returns/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/06/texas-corrects-clerical-error-in-presidential-returns/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 06 Jan 2009 06:38:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody Quirk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Election Results</category>
	<category>Campaign 2008</category>
	<category>Socialist Party(ies)</category>
	<category>Independent Candidate</category>
	<category>Cynthia McKinney</category>
	<category>Ralph Nader</category>
	<category>Presidential Race</category>
	<category>Alan Keyes</category>
	<category>Chuck Baldwin</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/06/texas-corrects-clerical-error-in-presidential-returns/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ballot Access News

	The Texas Secretary of State has corrected some clerical errors that had crept into the official November 2008 presidential returns, for the declared write-in candidates.

	As a result, Chuck Baldwin gained 343 votes, Ralph Nader gained 226 votes, Cynthia McKinney gained 160 votes, and Jonathan Allan gained one vote.

	Also, Brian Moore lost 778 votes, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Both major political parties brought police state to America</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/both-major-political-parties-brought-police-state-to-america/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/both-major-political-parties-brought-police-state-to-america/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:47:57 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>News</category>
	<category>Constitution Party</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/both-major-political-parties-brought-police-state-to-america/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	01/04/2009

	BOTH POLITICAL PARTIES BROUGHT POLICE STATE TO AMERICA
By Mary Starrett
Constitution Party Communications Director

	The word &#8220;fascism&#8221; has been used for decades to deride political ideologies of both the right and left. Fact is, fascism has come to America and we have allowed it to happen.

	Back in 1944 economist and author John Flynn pointed out that we [...]]]></description>
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		<title>New York Conservatives still run more candidates than any other minor party</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/new-york-conservatives-still-run-more-candidates-than-any-other-minor-party/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/new-york-conservatives-still-run-more-candidates-than-any-other-minor-party/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/new-york-conservatives-still-run-more-candidates-than-any-other-minor-party/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	From the January 3 issue of Ballot Access News:

	The Conservative Party of New York has been the minor party that runs candidates in the largest share of its state&#8217;s legislative seats, compared to any other minor party. This has been true continuously starting in 1970. The Conservatives hit their peak (for number of legislative nominees) [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Texas Libertarians favor end to straight-ticket voting</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/texas-libertarians-favor-end-to-straight-ticket-voting/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/texas-libertarians-favor-end-to-straight-ticket-voting/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 16:26:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Libertarian Party</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2009/01/05/texas-libertarians-favor-end-to-straight-ticket-voting/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Republican State Sen. Jeff Wentworth is seeking to eliminate the straight-ticket voting option on the Texas ballot, and has the support of Texas Libertarians.

	&#8220;It&#8217;s not a monumental issue,&#8221; says Patrick Dixon, chairman of the Libertarian Party of Texas.  &#8220;But the sense is when a lot of people vote, they check the party and don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Second Amendment news: Bob Barr, Stephen Halbrook</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/second-amendment-news-bob-barr-stephen-halbrook/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/second-amendment-news-bob-barr-stephen-halbrook/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:44:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Bob Barr</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/second-amendment-news-bob-barr-stephen-halbrook/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Bob Barr, the 2008 Libertarian Party candidate for President, has prevailed over New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg in a lawsuit involving a Georgia sports store that sells guns.  Here is the Associated Press story on the case.

	Also on the Second Amendment front, Stephen Halbrook&#8217;s The Founders&#8217; Second Amendment, which Barr praises, skyrocketed on [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Paul Weyrich, RIP</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/paul-weyrich-rip/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/paul-weyrich-rip/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 14:07:25 +0000</pubDate>
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	<category>News</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/paul-weyrich-rip/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Jon Basil Utley, on the Antiwar.com blog, gives another view of conservative patriarch Paul Weyrich, who died last Thursday.  While most people are familiar with Weyrich&#8217;s role on social issues, Utley focuses on his war position and support for civil liberties.  He notes, for example:

	Weyrich also funded for several years an e-mail letter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Judge dismisses Nader lawsuit against Democrats</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/judge-dismisses-nader-lawsuit-against-democrats/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/judge-dismisses-nader-lawsuit-against-democrats/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:33:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/judge-dismisses-nader-lawsuit-against-democrats/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	U.S. District Judge Ricardo M. Urbina has dismissed a lawsuit by Ralph Nader that accused the Democratic Party of conspiring to keep him off the ballot in 2004.  Nader ran as an independent candidate for President this year.  The Associated Press story is here.
 ]]></description>
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		<title>Maine&#8217;s Green chairwoman to run for governor</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/maines-green-chairwoman-to-run-for-governor/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/maines-green-chairwoman-to-run-for-governor/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 23 Dec 2008 13:27:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>TPW News Items</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Green Party</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/23/maines-green-chairwoman-to-run-for-governor/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Lynne Williams,  an attorney who has championed numerous environmental and human rights causes in Maine, has announced that she intends to run for governor in 2010.  She is state chairman of the Maine Green Independent Party and serves on the planning board in Bar Harbor.

	The Bangor Daily News covers her entry into the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Constitution Party Presidential Vote compared- 2004 to 2008</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/19/constitution-party-presidential-vote-compared-2004-to-2008/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/19/constitution-party-presidential-vote-compared-2004-to-2008/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sat, 20 Dec 2008 01:38:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Cody Quirk</dc:creator>
		
	<category>News</category>
	<category>Election Results</category>
	<category>History</category>
	<category>Campaign 2008</category>
	<category>Constitution Party</category>
	<category>Presidential Race</category>
	<category>Chuck Baldwin</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/19/constitution-party-presidential-vote-compared-2004-to-2008/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	Ballot Access News

	In 2004, Constitution Party presidential nominee Michael Peroutka was on the ballot in states containing 66.4% of the national presidential vote. Where he was on the ballot, he polled .173% of the total presidential vote in those places.

	In 2008, Constitution Party presidential nominee Chuck Baldwin was on the ballot in states containing 59.0% [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Got birth certificate?</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/got-birth-certificate/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/got-birth-certificate/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:39:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Release</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Constitution Party</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/got-birth-certificate/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The following is a media release from the Constitution Party:


	12/09/2008

	Got Birth Certificate?
Constitution Party Calls For Barack Obama To Prove Eligibility For Office

	Lancaster, PA, The country&#8217;s fastest-growing third party (Ballot Access News 12/08) challenged Barack Obama to release his birth certificate and dispel the grave concerns that he is ineligible to assume office as president of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Rush Limbaugh to Blagojevich:  Nominate Alan Keyes</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/rush-limbaugh-to-blagojevich-nominate-alan-keyes/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/rush-limbaugh-to-blagojevich-nominate-alan-keyes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:44:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/rush-limbaugh-to-blagojevich-nominate-alan-keyes/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	According to an American Independent Party blog, Rush Limbaugh is recommending to Governor Blagojevich that if he really wants to stick it to Obama and company, he should nominate Alan Keyes to be Senator from Illinois.

	Karole Noymann has this to say about the idea on Daily Kos:



	For those who may not be aware Keyes was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Bob Barr condemns newest bailout</title>
		<link>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/bob-barr-condemns-newest-bailout/</link>
		<comments>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/bob-barr-condemns-newest-bailout/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Dec 2008 08:26:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Media Release</dc:creator>
		
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	<category>Bob Barr</category>
		<guid>http://thirdpartywatch.com/2008/12/15/bob-barr-condemns-newest-bailout/</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[	The following is a media release from the Libertarian Party:

	Dec 11, 2008

	Barr Condemns Newest Bailout
Auto Bailout Will Only &#8220;Compound the Problem&#8221;

	Former Congressman Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party&#8217;s 2008 presidential nominee, issued a statement condemning the proposed $15-billion bailout of the auto industry apparently nearing approval in the Congress.  Barr said &#8220;the Faustian bargain&#8221; the [...]]]></description>
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