Archive for April, 2012

Time Capsule: Phil Crane Calls It Quits, Endorses Reagan in 1980

Time Capsule: Phil Crane Calls It Quits, Endorses Reagan in 1980

Thirty-two years ago today, Rep. Phil Crane of Illinois, a leading conservative firebrand in the U.S. House of Representatives, abandoned his twenty-month quest for the Republican presidential nomination and endorsed conservative rival Ronald Reagan. Crane, who had not actively campaigned since losing badly in his […]

by · April 17, 2012 · 1 comment ·
LaRouche Candidate in France Wages War on Financial Oligarchy

LaRouche Candidate in France Wages War on Financial Oligarchy

In the first of a three-part series on the French presidential election, political activist Jacques Cheminade recently took time out from his busy schedule to speak with Uncovered Politics about his bid to unseat President Nicolas Sarkozy.  Waging his second campaign for the presidency in seventeen years, […]

by · April 17, 2012 · 3 comments ·
Americans Elect: Draft Mark Cuban for President

Americans Elect: Draft Mark Cuban for President

With only about three weeks to go before the Americans Elect process really gets underway, none of the declared candidates are even close to gaining enough support to qualify for the online caucus. At least under the current rules. So I started to wonder if […]

by · April 17, 2012 · 0 comments ·
Buddy Roemer on Pace to Qualify for Americans Elect Ballot by August 2013

Buddy Roemer on Pace to Qualify for Americans Elect Ballot by August 2013

Visit the Americans Elect website and you’ll see a notice that there are only 22 days left until the first round of caucusing gets underway.   The problem with that is, as of yet, no declared candidates have collected enough support to participate in the caucus. […]

by · April 15, 2012 · 1 comment ·
Newt’s Terrible, Horrible, Kinda Good, Very Bad Week

Newt’s Terrible, Horrible, Kinda Good, Very Bad Week

This week Newt Gingrich finally got what he’s wanted all along, a one-on-one shot at Mitt Romney in the Republican primary race.  The only problem is, Romney has such a commanding lead in the delegate count that the media has determined the race all-but-over and […]

by · April 14, 2012 · 0 comments ·
Rocky’s Difficult Road to the Americans Elect Nomination

Rocky’s Difficult Road to the Americans Elect Nomination

The other day we took note of former Governor Buddy Roemer’s struggles to make it to the next round of balloting in the Americans Elect online caucus.  But there’s actually someone who is in even worse shape, under the Americans Elect rules.  Its Rocky Anderson, […]

by · April 13, 2012 · 1 comment ·
American Nazi Party Registers a Lobbyist

American Nazi Party Registers a Lobbyist

White supremacist gadfly and former “presidential candidate” John Bowles has registered to represent the American Nazi Party as a lobbyist on Capitol Hill. “Of course I won’t approach anybody in Congress unless it’s a very interesting issue or law,” Bowles promised U.S. News and World […]

by · April 12, 2012 · 0 comments ·
Gingrich Fumes About Fox News at Delaware Tea Party Meeting

Gingrich Fumes About Fox News at Delaware Tea Party Meeting

As former Speaker Newt Gingrich continues his increasingly long-shot presidential campaign, focusing heavily on the state of Delaware, he’s begun opening up and speaking more candidly about the state of the Republican Party and other topics. At a private meeting with more than a dozen […]

by · April 11, 2012 · 1 comment ·
Ralph Nader (Kinda) Endorses Rocky Anderson

Ralph Nader (Kinda) Endorses Rocky Anderson

Justice Party presidential candidate Rocky Anderson appeared with Ralph Nader today at a press conference in Portland, Oregon. However, according to Richard Winger of Ballot Access News, Nader stopped short of an actual endorsement: “Nader said he supports the decision of the Oregon Progressive Party, […]

by · April 10, 2012 · 3 comments ·
Buddy Roemer Struggling to Make Americans Elect Ballot

Buddy Roemer Struggling to Make Americans Elect Ballot

Buddy Roemer seems like the closest thing to a front-runner in the Americans Elect race, as he’s attracted by-far the most support of any declared candidate for the AE nomination.  Yet, because of the rules currently in place, he still may not qualify for the […]

by · April 10, 2012 · 10 comments ·