Comments on: Fox News Has Best Returns for Minor Party, Independent Presidential Candidates

By: Ron

Ron — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 02:09:18 +0000

Google actually had some third parties (Nader and Barr) listed prominently on their election coverage/results page, it was even updated live as the votes were counted.

By: Andrew

Andrew — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 12:22:23 +0000

Nader is third – somewhere around 650,000 – they had hoped for a million but the fact those on the left got squeezed should surprise none.

Just done a quick check and its VERY late so I could be wrong but I believe where both were on the ballot he beat Barr in every state except Arizona and South Carolina. He beat both Libertarians combined vote in New Hampshire. He beat McKinney everywhere but Louisiana (presumably due to her work in New Orleans).

It might be noted that Nader was beaten by Ron Paul in both states where they were both on the ballot. Paul polled 0.5 in Louisiana and 2.1% in Montana.

Outside of Paul the best votes were Nader’s 1.4% in Maine and the Constituton Party’s 1.3% in Utah (a bright spot in an otherwise poor result for them).

The squeeze on the left was very predictable – that on the right was perhaps less so but proved just as efficient.

By: hdf

hdf — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 06:39:50 +0000

An LP candidate in Texas just broke 1,000,000 votes: http://team1.sos.state.tx.us/enr/results/nov04_141_race39.htm Should be some kind of record for the LP?

By: NE

NE — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:15:25 +0000

Thanks for the link!

By: Scott West

Scott West — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:10:05 +0000

The best breakdown for minor parties and Nader is being done by AP. C-SPAN has it here:
http://preview.tinyurl.com/6hgur3

By: NE

NE — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:07:45 +0000

BTW, you can watch Cindy Sheehan’s results here: http://abcnews.go.com/politics/elections/?category=California

District 8 (0% reporting currently).

By: NE

NE — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:05:37 +0000

BBC has the total national result for â€œothersâ€ (it does not break them down), check out: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/us_elections_2008/7697829.stm

I have not found a site that breaks down the minor parties’ and Nader’s vote yet though, unfortunately.

By: Deran

Deran — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 04:03:31 +0000

The NYT state map of NY state shows 73% of ballots counted, and Nader is only at .5%. Not so exciting.

By: Earl

Earl — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:58:58 +0000

The Canadian Broadcasting Company at http://www.cbc.ca has a simple but useful map with third-party results included. Isn’t it funny how we can’t get any honest returns from the US media?

By: Robert

Robert — Wed, 05 Nov 2008 03:46:47 +0000

ah so much for my prediction abilities, looks like Nader is already ahead of Barr in the latest tally.

Nader is not on the ballot in Texas, so thats a state where Barr would gain ground on Nader, and it has some votes left to count, but with California yet to come, I have to think Naders lead is going to stick.

But Baldwin is still at .12%, so far, although Baldwin will do well in Utah, and some states like that, but he’s not on the ballot on the AIP line in California…as far as I know, so I don’t see his numbers changing much.