On June 30, Gravis Marketing released a Florida gubernatorial poll. The results: Republican incumbent Rick Scott 41%; Democrat Charlie Crist 39%; Libertarian Adrian Wyllie 6%; undecided 15%. See here for the details. Thanks to PoliticalWire for the link.
All of the statewide Illinois petitions submitted for the general election this year have been challenged. The independent candidates for Governor and U.S. Senator will certainly be removed from the ballot, because none of them had as many signatures as the legal requirement, 25,000. The three statewide minor party petitions all have over 25,000, however,(More)…
McCain Wants You to Wage War on the Thugs He Embraced.
On June 23, a lower state court in Illinois removed both initiatives from the ballot. See this story. One initiative would impose legislative term limits; the other would set up a redistricting commission. Everyone agrees that the term limits has enough valid signatures, but whether the redistricting initiative has enough valid signatures is still contested.(More)…
The Libertarian Party is holding a national convention in Columbus, Ohio. The body just voted to use Approval Voting for election of party officers.
On June 26, the deadline, the New Mexico Green Party submitted a petition to restore its party status. New Mexico now has six ballot-qualified parties: Democratic, Republican, Libertarian, Constitution, Green, and Independent American. However, there are only a handful of minor party nominees for any office in New Mexico this year, because of the law(More)…
According to this article, leaders of the Montana Republican Party disagree with each other over whether the party should soon file a lawsuit to close the party’s primary. The state convention resolved in favor of a closed Republican primary but most party leaders seem unwilling to follow through with a lawsuit, at least this year.
Should we let the Fed punish you for saving money?
On June 26, the Republican Party announced that its national convention in 2016 will be in either Dallas or Cleveland. Because Kansas City has been eliminated, this means that the convention will start on July 18. Kansas City had been the only possible site that could host the alternate June 2016 date.
On June 24, Florida held a special election for the U.S. House, District 19. The results: Republican Curt Clawson 66.95%, Democrat April Freeman 29.32%, Libertarian Ray Netherwood 3.73%. The write-ins for the declared write-in candidate, Timothy Rossano, haven’t been counted yet. Here is a link to the Secretary of State’s election returns page. The last(More)…
