Libertarian Party founder David Nolan, who passed away on Sunday, was his party’s nominee for U.S. Senate in Arizona earlier this year. In memory of his passing, here is a 10-minute interview that Nolan did earlier this year with a website called Motorhome Diaries. During […]
Following the recent passing of Libertarian Party founder David Nolan, it seemed appropriate to offer up one of his most important pieces of writing — The Case For a Libertarian Political Party. The article has been made freely available on numerous websites and the full text of […]
David Nolan, the principal founder of the Libertarian Party, died Sunday. He was just two days shy of his 67th birthday. Initial speculation was that Nolan had a heart attack, although at least one libertarian website is now reporting that he actually suffered a stroke while […]
Mounting an unexpected political comeback, former U.S. Sen. Carol Moseley Braun of Illinois filed nominating petitions bearing 91,180 signatures for a place on the February 22 primary ballot in her bid for mayor of Chicago. Only 12,500 valid signatures are required.
Buoyed by his 364,000-vote showing in South Carolina’s recent U.S. Senate race, Alvin Greene hasn’t ruled out a bid for the presidency in 2012. “Maybe,” he told Politico last week when asked about the possibility of running for president. “I’ll have to see.”
With an eye on 2012, Peg Dunmire of Orlando has been named as the new chairman of the Florida Tea Party (TEA).
A lifelong Republican before becoming the Tea Party’s first congressional candidate earlier this year, Dunmire was unanimously chosen by the party’s executive committee on Monday…
With Ely out of the picture, Roosevelt was virtually assured of his party’s nomination. He faced only token opposition from Col. Henry S. Breckinridge, a former assistant Secretary of War in Woodrow Wilson’s administration. A conservative Democrat, Breckinridge was a prominent member of the rabidly anti-New Deal American Liberty League, a right-wing organization heavily funded by the Du Pont family.
Ninety million Americans voted in the 2010 mid-term congressional elections. 220 million didn’t. So much for the consent of the governed.
The Socialist Party’s Dan La Botz has surpassed the 25,000-vote mark in Ohio’s U.S. Senate race. With all but fourteen of Ohio’s 9,910 precincts reporting, the former history and Latin American studies professor and ex-journalist is unofficially garnering 25,311 votes.
In New York, which allows fusion, it seems that finding statewide results broken down by party is nearly impossible. The state’s Board of Elections certainly doesn’t do it. Their idea of election night reporting is a letter explaining why they won’t bother, because it’s very […]
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