Source: Ballot Access News

David P. Redlawsk, a Political Science professor at Rutgers, has this op-ed in the Newark Star-Ledger, analyzing why New Jersey independent gubernatorial candidate Chris Daggett only got 5.7% of the vote when polls close to the election had him at 20%. Redlawsk is also Director of the Rutgers-Eagleton Poll. He finds, in post-election polling, that 45% of the people who had thought they would vote for Daggett did not actually vote for him because they thought he couldn’t win.

Source: LP.org

WASHINGTON – The Libertarian Party (LP) today expressed its opposition to the Afghanistan war plans announced by President Barack Obama last night.

Wes Benedict, Executive Director of the LP, said, “Rush Limbaugh should buy Obama a nice cigar. The liberal president has done exactly what the conservative leader wanted: escalate the war.”

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