Jun
11
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
Filing for the Florida primary closed on June 8. The ballot-qualified Tea Party, which had eighteen candidates on the ballot in 2010 for federal and state office, has no candidates for partisan office this year.
In this year’s U.S. House races, there are 27 races. Republicans have a candidate in 24 races; Democrats also have a candidate in 24 races. The only minor party candidate for a Read more »
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Jun
11
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
Daily Kos has this interesting and fair article about California’s election system. Equally interesting are the comments.
Jun
11
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
Sometimes supporters of top-two open primary systems say that their system eliminates “spoiling”, i.e., the so-called tendency of minor party candidates in a race to alter the identity of the winner. But, that argument is faulty. This is clearly illustrated in the First Assembly District results in California’s June 5 primary.
Two Republicans ran: Brian Dahle received 31,687 votes, and Rick Bosetti received Read more »
Jun
11
2012
Source: Ballot Access News
The Michigan Libertarian Party has issued this press release, condemning Secretary of State Ruth Johnson, a Republican, for her decision that she will not allow the Libertarian Party (which is ballot-qualified) to list its presidential nominee on the 2012 ballot. Thanks to Bill Van Allen for the link.
Jun
11
2012
Source: Independent Political Report
After last May’s Libertarian National Convention (see here and here), one of their new At-Large members, Starchild (who is also a writer here on IPR) started an email list called LNCDiscussPublic. For the past couple of weeks, those who are interested have been able to follow along with the email conversations of the members of the national committee. This has made a few committee members uncomfortable, and there is a Read more »
Jun
11
2012
Source: Independent Political Report
Found on Facebook. See the article here.
Ron Paul has more courage and integrity than any other person I know of . He argued against the War on Drugs when it was at its height of popularity. He challenged the Fed long before it became popular to do so; in fact, he almost singlehandedly made it popular to do so. He has fought against social security, the prescription drug subsidy, corn subsidies, Read more »
