Category: Third Party & Independents

Hofstra University on Long Island is the site of the final presidential debate Wednesday night. Until then, the campus is alive with student activities, including historical reenactments. The irony of the situation is captured ontheWilderside.net:
Just finished watching an exchange between Abraham Lincoln and Frederick Douglass, both 3rd Party candidates. Lincoln did not mention […]

Would you teach your children to make up their own minds about political party and candidates? Or, would you insure their politics were the same as yours? Parenting politics should be a fascinating topic, but, it is under researched. Scholastic Magazine sponsored an election conducted by school age kids, grades 1 - 12, on the […]

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by Jonathan Cymberknopf
This 2008 election cycle I have been doing a lot of browsing through the internet looking at various Third Party web sites or so called Independent sites searching for news you normally don’t hear in the mainstream media since I decided to vote for someone other than Obama and McCain.
The crazy thing I […]

Richard Cooper is the former chair of the Libertarian Party of New York, a Ron Paul delegate, and a Bob Barr presidential elector. Like so many others, he is incensed that the National Rifle Association would snub Bob Barr, who is a member of its board of directors and who has an […]

We’ve noted before the race in Indiana’s 9th congressional district, where Libertarian Dr. Eric Schansberg is running against incumbent Rep. Baron Hill (Democrat) and former Rep. Mike Sodrel (Republican). When the local Republican chair proposed a debate between the candidates while hooked up to lie detectors, Schansberg readily agreed. He now writes […]