Comments on: Barr Seems Extremely Likely to Remain on Pennsylvania Ballot

By: kombayn

kombayn — Wed, 15 Oct 2008 04:11:32 +0000

I agree.

Next election, the LP should start preparing to nominate a candidate that will get a lot of support. Gary Johnson & Jesse Ventura are two very popular potential nominees. Start looking at making big splashes in local, state & governor races.

Only make pushes at Congressional seats that are winnable and can get a ton of support. It’s very possible for the LP to make a splash but they need to revamp the entire LNC committee and get rid of all the bad campaign workers that plagued the Barr/Root campaign, and let them leech on the Constitution or Republican parties.

-kombayn

By: Coming back to the LP

Coming back to the LP — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 08:18:02 +0000

Andy Says:
October 11th, 2008 at 10:12 pm
“We already know that double standards exsist between how ballot access laws get applied to Democrats and Republicans and how they get applied to minor parties and independents. We already know that minor party and independent candidates often get screwed while election officials often “look the other way” when it comes to Democrats and Republicans.

This is why it is essential that minor party and independent candidates have competent people.”

Andy. You have this exactly correct.

The LP needs to get organized.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 06:12:42 +0000

“Richard Says:
October 11th, 2008 at 9:24 pm
Every presidential election, some political party makes errors in filing. This year the major parties made errors in Texas and California. In 2004 both major parties were late in Florida. In 1988 both major parties were late in Indiana. In 1964, the Democrats were late in Iowa.

But the major parties always get excused, and they should be, because what difference does it make if the elector candidates’ paperwork is submitted late? No one knows who they are anyway. The problem is that there is a double standard, and minor parties are punished for things that major parties are not punished for.”

We already know that double standards exsist between how ballot access laws get applied to Democrats and Republicans and how they get applied to minor parties and independents. We already know that minor party and independent candidates often get screwed while election officials often “look the other way” when it comes to Democrats and Republicans.

This is why it is essential that minor party and independent candidates have competent people in charge of ballot access, then mistakes like this won’t happen.

By: Richard

Richard — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 05:24:10 +0000

Every presidential election, some political party makes errors in filing. This year the major parties made errors in Texas and California. In 2004 both major parties were late in Florida. In 1988 both major parties were late in Indiana. In 1964, the Democrats were late in Iowa.

By: Andy

Andy — Sun, 12 Oct 2008 01:05:44 +0000

“Jonathan Says:
October 11th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
not a fair comparison as every cycle brings different challenges. There was no way to know we would not be on Louisiana because of a Hurricane.
That’s 46. Connecticut and Maine is disputable .”

The only state that there is any legitimate excuse for the LP not making it on the ballot this year is Oklahoma (and even that could have been accomplished if the LNC had made it a priority and started the petition drive there back in 2007).

There was PLENTY of time for Louisiana. If they hadn’t waited until the last minute the hurricane would not have been a factor.

Due to incompetence, the LP failed this year in West Virginia, Washington DC, Maine, and Louisiana. Connecticut is still in dispute, but the fact of the matter is that if a better job had been done on the petition drive it would not be in dispute right now.

By: Jonathan

Jonathan — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 23:24:19 +0000

not a fair comparison as every cycle brings different challenges. There was no way to know we would not be on Louisiana because of a Hurricane.
That’s 46. Connecticut and Maine is disputable .

By: Jake Witmer

Jake Witmer — Sat, 11 Oct 2008 12:53:51 +0000

Of course, there would be no doubt that he would be on the ballot in 2008, if the LP had not hired Sean Haugh as their “political director”. Sean had not the slightest idea what he was doing in 2008, and we thus only made it on 45 states and no DC, whereas in 2008 we were on the ballot in 48 states and DC (and we only failed in NH because the local NH LP told our activists they were not needed. The manpower was there in 2004 to succeed in 49 states and DC.

Tired of costly and incomplete ballot access for third parties? Why not have the minor parties split the cost of ballot access? Now you can!

Please contribute to that effort online here:
http://www.freedomballotaccess.org