Third Parties
Third Party Impact on the 2008 Minnesota Legislative Vote
Third party candidates in the Gopher State made a slight comeback in 2008, and had some impact on Minnesota legislative races on Tuesday. Two races were decidedly impacted by third party candidacies. In the open DFL House District 51A, Republican…
Read MoreIndependence Party Sets New Records in Election 2008
Although the number of candidates the Independence Party of Minnesota has been able to field in state legislative elections has fallen sharply during the past few election cycles, the Party enjoyed some personal bests in the 2008 elections. At the…
Read MoreLive Blog: David Dillon, Independence Party 3rd CD Candidate
12:00 p.m. In the fourth of a series of candidate forums sponsored by the Center for the Study of Politics and Governance at the University of Minnesota’s Humphrey Institute, Independence Party 3rd Congressional District candidate David Dillon is giving a…
Read MoreDean Barkley Trying to Make History in MN U.S. Senate Race
A new Rasmussen poll of the high profile U.S.Senate race in Minnesota was released today with some surprising resuts, as Norm Coleman (48 percent) and Al Franken (47 percent) amassed 95 percent of the support of the 500 likely voters…
Read MoreWhy Isn’t Dean Barkley Derailing Al Franken’s Candidacy?
The first two polls released since Dean Barkley won the Independence Party primary last week still show a very close race between Norm Coleman and Al Franken, with Barkley receiving 13 percent (Minnesota Poll) and 14 percent (SurveyUSA) support among…
Read MoreLibertarian Ballot Option On the Rise in Wisconsin
Whether it is because the Libertarian Party has a well-known nominee in the Presidential race in Bob Barr (though not necessarily well-regarded in Libertarian leadership circles), whether it is because the Libertarian base has been fired up due to…
Read MoreThird Parties Garnering Support In Key Statewide Races
A recent report by Gallup indicates muted support for third party candidates thus far in the 2008 presidential race. In an open-ended question asking likely voters for which candidate they would cast their presidential ballot, only 2 percent cited third…
Read MoreSmart Politics Study: Independence Party Need Make No Apologies to the DFL
The DFL has pointed to the Independence Party gubernatorial candidacies of Peter Hutchinson (2006) and Tim Penny (2002) as part of the reason for Republican Tim Pawlenty’s two plurality wins in the Gopher State. The fear, among the DFL,…
Read MoreWill 2008 Be the Year of the Libertarian?
Although the impact of the Libertarian Party in presidential elections has been muted since first appearing on the ballot in 1972, the expectations for the Party are high in 2008. This election cycle, the LP has nominated its most…
Read MoreMN State House: Independence Party Stops the Bleeding
The Independence Party has stopped the bleeding. After leaving a major footprint on Minnesota State House races in the 2000, 2002, and 2004 elections, the number of IP candidates on the ballot greatly declined in 2006 to just nine districts….
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