Source: Ballot Access News
Doug Schoen, a pollster and also a columnist for Fox News, has this article, suggesting that Gary Johnson, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee, will be a big factor in the 2012 presidential general election.
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On May 12, the gubernatorial nominees of the Indiana Democratic, Republican, and Libertarian Parties debated each other. See this story.
Source: Ballot Access News
Lawrence Lessig, prominent law professor and author of several books on campaign finance reform, has this Atlantic Monthly column, urging his readers to vote for Buddy Roemer in the Americans Elect nomination system. Lessig says that his previous support of Americans Elect has garnered an angry reaction from many of his readers, who claim that the Americans Elect nominee might “spoil” President Obama’s chances for Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
The Texas primary is May 29. Here is a statement by the chair of the Fort Bend County Texas Democratic Party, urging the party faithful to help defeat Kesha Rogers in the Democratic primary for U.S. House, 22nd district. Rogers is a supporter of Lyndon LaRouche. She is opposed by a regular Democrat, K. P. George.
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According to this Virginia newspaper story, Virgil Goode, Constitution Party nominee for President, is criticizing Mitt Romney for not having fought same-sex marriage in Massachusetts while he was Governor. Goode called Romney “the father of homosexual marriages.”
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Political scientists who have studied primary systems invariably find that top-two election systems do not elect more centrist candidates. Here is a summary of that evidence:
1. Professor Todd Donovan of Western Washington University concluded, “The partisan structure of Washington’s legislature appears unaltered by the new primary system” and “The aggregate of all of this (implementation of the top-two system starting in 2008) did Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
On May 10, a 3-judge panel of the District of Columbia Court of Appeals refused to block Pennsylvania Democrats from seizing $56,928 from Ralph Nader’s bank accounts located in Washington, D.C. Back in 2004, Nader’s petition had been held to lack sufficient valid signatures. Under Pennsylvania’s unique system for checking signatures on petitions, when a petition is found not to have enough valid signatures, court costs are Read more »
Source: Ballot Access News
On May 8, the Oklahoma Senate agreed to a conference committee for HB 1058, the ballot access bill that has passed both chambers, but in different forms in each house. The House version cuts the number of signatures to exactly 22,500 signatures. The Senate version leaves the current 5% formula, but improves ballot access in midterm years by changing the base for the calculation from 5% of the vote cast in the preceding Read more »
Source: Nader.org
Dear Mr. Chambers:
You have once again skewered shareholder value this week with your predictable gloom, that historically belies the contrary reality in Cisco’s steady increase in sales and profits and in so doing raised questions about your leadership.
Why do you, for example, feel so compelled to follow quarter after quarter of greater sales and profits and predict decline far beyond what the SEC expects in its vague Read more »
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