Barr eyes swing states for 'real impact'

Bob Barr's longshot presidential bid is in some ways as much about sending a signal to the Republicans, his former party, as it is about earning a respectable showing Tuesday for his Libertarian Party.

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Judge: Barr will be on Pa.'s presidential ballot

A Pennsylvania judge's ruling that keeps Libertarian Party presidential candidate Bob Barr on the ballot will force Republican John McCain and Democrat Barack Obama to take him seriously in a key battleground state, a Barr campaign spokesman said Monday.

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Former Ga. Rep. Barr picked as Libertarian candidate

The Libertarian Party on Sunday picked former Republican Rep. Bob Barr to be its presidential candidate after six rounds of balloting.

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Barr launches Libertarian White House bid

Former Republican Rep. Bob Barr launched a Libertarian Party presidential bid Monday, saying voters are hungry for an alternative to the status quo who would dramatically cut the federal government.

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Democrat Gravel Switches to Libertarian

Long-shot presidential candidate Mike Gravel told supporters Wednesday he is leaving the Democratic Party to join the Libertarian Party.

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Alabama Candidate Campaigns on Cleavage

Loretta Nall, the Libertarian Party's write-in candidate for governor of Alabama, is campaigning on her cleavage and hoping that voters will eventually focus on her platform.

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Presidential Candidate Harry Browne Dies

Harry Browne, who twice ran for president as the Libertarian Party candidate, has died. He was 72.

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Perot never would have made it that far without his business success. If Libertarians want to have a real impact in 2010 or 2012, they need to recruit from the business world, where their values will resonate most. Places like Silicon Valley, Austin, and Seattle.

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That means that Marakay Rogers campaign success has secured the Libertarian Party in Pennsylvania its minor party status for the next two years.

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Libertarians as a party don't win elections because they limit their diversity, which in turn limits their numbers. That needs to change.

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This past week a panel of judges in North Carolina heard the appeal of a 2005 case filed by the state's Libertarian Party over its loss of ballot access following the 2004 elections.

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I Am The Extreme Right, And The Left Needs Me!

Every story needs a villain, but not as much as both political parties need their boogeymen. In this era of endless negative politics, both parties love to vilify their enemies, and when legitimate enemies do not exist, they invent them. They NEED enemies.

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Washington D.C.

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A good piece about Bob Barr and why he is running as a Libertarian candidate for president, his concerns about the direction in which the country is headed and why he quit the Republican Party and left the culture wars behind.

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Third-party presidential candidates finally will have their own debate: at 8 p.m. Sunday at Columbia University in New York.

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Election A to Z answers readers' questions such as: Is there a minimum percentage of the American population required to vote in order for a presidential election to be valid?

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"Whereas the Libertarian Party of Florida recognizes that the current plan to bail out the financial institutions from the bad loans that they were forced to make by pressures from Congress and liberal organizations will damage the U. S.

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The Texas Supreme Court this morning rejected Libertarian presidential nominee Bob Barr's request that the court toss the major-party nominees off the Nov. 4 ballot in Texas.

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Bob Barr, the Libertarian candidate, has sent a letter to the Texas Director of Elections and Secretary of State requesting that Obama and McCain be kept off the ballot in the Texas general election because they failed to meet the filing deadline.

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Barr Campaign Quickly Sinking

The presidential campaign of Libertarian Bob Barr began to quickly sink yesterday after the former Republican congressman boycotted Ron Paul's third party endorsement press conference.

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If the People of the United States (over 55 percent of them) say they want Bob Barr in the debates, then that should be enough.

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Low Profile Endorsement

As political retoric has assaulted even the most apathetic individual's eardrums, I have been banging my brains, debating who is to become my very low-profile endorsement.

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Now, as Republicans gather in St. Paul, Minn., to formally pick McCain as their presidential nominee, Paul supporters are fuming over a nasty battle that resulted in two sets of Nevada delegates vying to be seated at the convention.

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With Bob Barr's nomination, the Libertarian Party is threatening to achieve historical relevance.

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Ron Paul Supporters send Petition to GOP

Ten Thousand disgruntled Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, Greens, and Independents pledge to NOT vote for McCain.

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Libertarian Party's satire of the GOP's platform.

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The Libertarian Party calls for restraint in US policy towards Iran, questioning the United States ability to pay for another military campaign and the wisdom in further extending the military.

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Purely by coincidence, Denver will play host to both the Libertarian National Convention and the Democratic National Convention this year. Absent from the coterie of freedom-loving Libertarians was the presence of judges, chicken wire and a bastion of ACLU attorneys.

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"Although public attention yesterday focused on the gun control case in Heller, the Supreme Court made another critically important ruling on behalf of liberty," notes Bob Barr, the Libertarian Party presidential nominee. In Davis v.

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Interview of Bob Barr, the former Republican turned Libertarian candidate for President, on the faux-conservatism of John McCain, the uselessness of the federal government, and why he's now in favor of gay marriage.

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Sonny Landham, who carved out a tough-guy reputation in a series of big-screen roles, pulls no punches in his newest role: Libertarian challenger to a man known for political toughness, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell.

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Libertarian Party disappointed with Obama backpedaling on FISA

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