The Rolla Daily News of Rolla, Missouri, on Saturday, February 2, made editorial endorsements in the presidential primaries of all three ballot-qualified parties in Missouri. In the Libertarian primary, the newspaper endorsed George Phillies. See it here. Rolla is in central Missouri, southeast of Jefferson City. Thanks to ThirdPartyWatch for this.
Other Libertarians on the Missouri presidential primary ballot are Dave Hollist, Daniel Imperato, Michael Jingozian, Steve Kubby, and Wayne Allyn Root.
The editorial also endorsed Mike Huckabee for Republicans, and Barack Obama for Democrats.
Isn’t there also a Green Party primary in Missouri?
Still, this is good news for Libertarian party activists, and in particular the Phillies campaign.
I’ll be curious to see if the county that Rolla is located has proportionally more Libertarian and/or Phillies votes tallied than the rest of the state (or adjoining counties).
PEACE
Steve
The Green Party is not a ballot-qualified party in Missouri. Furthermore it isn’t even petitioning yet.
It’s nice to see that newspapers are looking at and endorsing candidates form other parties outside of the major parties. It will make American elections more legitimate if there are more legitimate choices, and I say this as a Democrat.