Oregon has eight qualified parties. It is likely that three of them won’t nominate anyone for President.
The Working Families Party generally nominates candidates who are also Democratic nominees, but the Working Families Party in Oregon does not expect to nominate Hillary Clinton or anyone else.
The Constitution Party of Oregon is in political disagreement with the national Constitution Party, and does not expect to nominate Darrell Castle or anyone else for President this year.
The Independent Party had its own private presidential primary, and no one got as much as 50%, so under its own bylaws, it can’t nominate anyone for President.
The other five parties are Democratic, Green, Libertarian, Progressive, and Republican. The Progressive Party nominated Jill Stein, so her name will be on the ballot as “Pacific Green, Progressive.”
I presume their “non-nominations” won’t affect their ballot status — at least, not adversely.
BTW, on what information do you base these projections? Is the Oregon Constitution Party sympathetic to the Idaho party’s protest? Has the Working Families Party in/of Oregon indicated it would have nominated Sanders — and have they or the Progressive Party said anything about Stein or La Riva or other candidates?
According to the Sec of State website, Jill Stein has the Progressive nomination as well.
The Oregon Constitution Party is not affiliated with the national Constitution Party, they’re affiliated with the Independent American Party, which nominated Farley Anderson for president. However, Mr. Anderson has made no attempt to actively campaign for president or seek ballot access, and in fact may not even still be the party’s candidate for president. Kyle Kopitke got on the ballot in Colorado as the candidate of the IAP.
Judd, thank you very much. I amended the post.
Parties in Oregon stay on the ballot if they got at least 1% for any statewide office at either of the last two elections. They also stay on if their registration is at least one-half of 1%. None of the Oregon parties need to run anyone for President to remain on the ballot.
I’ve only seen it on the Sec of State’s website, I don’t see any mention of it on social media or their website. A low-key endorsement?
Working Families seems to be trying to remain on the ballot through voter registration drives and by running their own US Senate candidate.
https://nwlaborpress.org/2016/05/to-stay-afloat-oregon-working-families-party-needs-more-voters-by-august/
https://nwlaborpress.org/2016/08/oregon-working-families-party-challenges-free-trader-ron-wyden/
Will the Constitution Party have any state or local candidates?
Thanks to Judd and Richard.
The Constitution Party’s website is showing Oregon in green, but their summary table lists its status as pending, so perhaps they are/were trying to mend some fences? http://www.constitutionparty.com/get-involved/election-central/ballot-access/
I just don’t know. As Cody mentioned on another thread, their map has inaccuracies. Oddly, they now list West Virginia as pending as well, so I don’t know what’s up with that. Did his filing fee check bounce?
The summary table on the CP website seems to be the most up to date for ballot access as of the 23rd.The list North Carolina as not on ballot and several write-in’s as gone through.The just need to update the list for Ohio and Minnesota.
Independent Party of Oregon used approval voting in its nomination primary,but first-place finisher Sanders won only a third of the vote, barely ahead of Trump. Says something useful about approval voting in practice!
Rob Richie.. it’s because of two things. People don’t understand how to use it AND most people that do know how to use it bullet vote anyway (aka vote for only person just like first past the post).
Rob Richie,
There’s absolutely nothing wrong with that Approval Voting result. If IRV had been used to nominate a “majority winner”, it still would have been someone without the approval of a majority of voters. IRV just hides that knowledge.
I’ve explained this to you before in painstaking detail.
http://clayshentrup.blogspot.com/2012/10/rob-richie-misleads-on-approval-voting.html
AMcCarrick,
I’d say you’re wrong on both counts.
The way most people currently vote is to pick their favorite *among the frontrunners*. So Greens often vote Democrat. This is called tactical voting.
With Approval Voting, they can start with that strategy, but then they might as well cast votes for all the candidates they sincerely prefer to that tactical choice. E.g. the Green then can vote Democrat AND Green.
Why would a Green bullet vote for a Democrat with Approval Voting??
And they don’t understand Approval Voting? Please.
Yep, looks like the Oregon CP isn’t running anyone for president this year-
https://secure.sos.state.or.us/orestar/cfFilings.do