On December 28, former New Mexico Governor Gary Johnson formally declared that he is seeking the Libertarian Party presidential nomination. See this story. Except for several southern Governors who had supported racial segregation, Johnson is the first former Governor to seek the presidency outside of the major parties since 1924, when Robert La Follette, a former Governor of Wisconsin, ran for President as an independent Progressive.
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Edited By Richard Winger
Give ’em hell, Gary!
Just donated. Changing my party registration tomorrow.
Johnson made the comment in an E-mail that the LP was on the ballot in all 50 states in 2008. With write-in campaigns, was this a factual statement. I think there may have been a state we missed. It looks we will should make it or be close again in 2012.
The LP missed 5 states and DC in 2008. Write-ins were counted in Maine but none of the others. Barr missed filing for write-in status in West Virginia and Connecticut by one day in each case. He did file as a write-in in DC but DC so far hasn’t counted the votes, but it is still in court. Louisiana and Oklahoma don’t permit write-ins.
Johnson had better get off the GOP primary ballot in SC, if he wants to appear on the ballot here in November.
http://lexington-sc.patch.com/articles/johnson-likely-kept-off-nov-ballot
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#5, the South Carolina “sore loser” law, section 7-11-210, says, “Every candidate for selection as a nominee of any political party for any state office, U.S. Senator, member of Congress or solicitor, to be voted for at any party primary election, shall file with and place in the possession of the treasurer of the state committee by 12:00 noon on March 30 a notice or pledge…which says ‘I hereby pledge myself to abide by the results of the primary…” By its very terms it doesn’t apply to presidential primaries.
And even if it did, states can’t impose “sore loser” laws on candidates in presidential primaries, because the true candidates in November are the candidates for Presidential Elector. The presidential candidates’ names are on the November ballot, not in their capacity as candidates, but as labels for competing slates of presidential electors. The presidential electors aren’t sore losers. And they have a First Amendment right to tell the world whom they will vote for in December in the electoral college if they are elected to the electoral college.
Exactly. The popular general election just nominates the electors, the electoral vote is the actual presidential election.
#7 Glad to hear it.
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You probably don’t hear it expressed like this very often, but Richard you rock.
Abolish the DARK AGE ANTI-Democracy Electoral College — should have abolished in 1865 — BUT the Elephant robot party hacks loved it when the minority rule election in 1860 elected Prez Lincoln — and him again in 1864.
P.R. and nonpartisan App.V. — pending head to head math.
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