Farrell Dobbs, the Socialist Workers Party candidate for President, predicted that Republican Thomas E. Dewey would capture the White House on this day in 1948. Dewey was leading President Truman by double digits in most public opinion polls at the time. Speaking at a press […]
This post is a bit “off topic” but I wanted to reach out to some of my friends within the Libertarian Party and the liberty movement as a whole. Over the past few years sites like The Daily Paul have taken root as significant voices. […]
Independent Angus King, the former governor of Maine, is running well ahead of Republican Charlie Summers and Democrat Cynthia Dill in Rasmussen Reports’ first look at the U.S. Senate race in Maine. A telephone survey of likely Maine voters shows King earning 45% support to […]
While some are still holding out hope for a last minute court decision, most indications are that Gary Johnson and the Libertarian Party will not appear on the presidential ballot in Michigan this year. The loss amounts to the only significant black-eye in an otherwise […]
The Mississippi Secretary of State’s office has posted a sample ballot on their website for the November general election. Of most interest is the full slate filed by the Reform Party of Mississippi, one of several independent fragments left-over from the Ross Perot founded Reform […]
“A Toast to Glory: The Prohibition Party Flirts With Greatness” is now available for Amazon Kindle. Darcy Richardson’s latest work is an examination of the 1932 Prohibition Party’s efforts to recruit a major-name candidate to serve as their Presidential nominee. For much of its history, […]
Former Minnesota Governor Jesse Ventura was a guest on Larry King Now for the half-hour, talking about his new book and his general disgust with the two major parties. During the interview Ventura notes that he’s supporting and campaigning with Libertarian Gary Johnson, apparently even […]
With a clenched fist and a fiery denunciation of all forms of discrimination, civil rights activist Margaret Wright of the Watts section of Los Angeles accepted the presidential nomination of the tiny People’s Party during this week in 1976. Famed pediatrician and best-selling author Benjamin Spock, […]
The late Harry Browne, waging the first of two consecutive campaigns as the Libertarian Party’s nominee for the presidency, criticized Texas billionaire Ross Perot as “a political welfare queen” on this day in 1996. Browne, who qualified for federal matching funds during both of his […]
In one of the most fascinating congressional races in the country that autumn, wealthy playwright Clare Boothe Luce, the glamorous wife of TIME, Life and Fortune founder and publisher Henry R. Luce, announced her candidacy for the Republican nomination for the U.S. House from Connecticut’s […]
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