Comments on: Libertarian, Constitution Parties are Only Nationally-Organized Parties with More Legislative Nominees in 2008 than in 2006

By: Joshua

Joshua — Mon, 27 Oct 2008 18:13:07 +0000

So the Connecticut for Lieberman party candidates are all opponents of Joe Lieberman? That must be confusing. One would think that voters who dislike Lieberman would reject any candidates with the “Connecticut for Lieberman” label.

By: Richard

Richard — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 22:22:08 +0000

That Green Party webpage is very good and very useful, but it lists some Greens who wanted to run this year, but didn’t get on the November ballot for a variety of reasons. One Arizona Green didn’t get enough write-in votes in the Green Party primary. 5 Illinois Greens apparently didn’t get nominated properly by party meeting after the primary, or else they didn’t get on the Green Party primary ballot. One Connecticut candidate’s general election petition failed. Some Maine Greens apparently didn’t get themselves on the Green Party primary ballot. One Ohio candidate didn’t get on for some reason. One South Carolina Green was kept off by a Democratic Party challenge. One Washington state Green was wiped out by “top-two”. One West Virginia Mountain Party candidate didn’t end up on the ballot for some reason.

By: e b bortz

e b bortz — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 20:10:42 +0000

On the gp.org elections menu, there are 3 groups
of “equivalent” state legislature offices:

State Representative
State House of Representative
General Assembly

Using these 3 groups of candidates, there are
approximately 57 Green Party candidates for these
offices from what I can tell. That seems to surpass the number the Green Party had for these
offices in 2006.