Public Policy Polling released this poll on June 14, for the U.S. Senate race in Illinois.
The poll unwisely listed only the nominees of the Democratic, Republican, and Green Parties. Chances are, there were be several other minor party and/or independent candidates on the ballot for U.S. Senate. The poll shows these results: Alexi Giannoulias, Democrat, 31%; Mark Kirk, Republican, 30%; LeAlan Jones, Green, 14%; undecided 24%.
Randy Stufflebeam of the Constitution Party is working towards ballot access. In 2006, he received over 19,000 write-in votes in the race for Governor, so ballot access should dramatically increase his vote count.
I wish someone could tell us how many signatures Stufflebeam has. All my efforts to reach him late last month failed.
Richard,
Mine too. I sent an email and tried to contact him via facebook. So, I wish I could help.
I hope that they have been working with the LP of Illinois–who are currently trying to collect around 50,000 signatures for ballot access too.
I did see on his facebook page he said this 5 days ago:
“It’s the last sprint for the finish line and we are trying to raise an additional 5,000 dollars to pay for 10,000 signatues. Please call me if you can help. 618-978-3946. We hace 9 days left to collect signatures.”
That must mean they think they have a shot at it.
Whoa! The Green gets 14% of the vote in a, up to now, 3-way race for the U.S. Senate race? The viability threshold is close, even though there are 24% undecided. Very good effort!!
Derek is right.
The Green Party candidate for U.S. Senate LeAlan Jones is in a very strong position now.
The media should, could, and probably will cover him with numbers like this.
Can LeAlan Jones present a positive message of Green Jobs, a Green New Deal, JOBS, High Speed Rail, balancing the federal budget by cutting Defense spending to reasonable levels and getting out of Iraq and Afghan..
Go LeAlan Jones…
LeAlan Jones is likely benefitting from being the only third party candidate included in the poll. Jones may in fact be polling double digits, but I suspect many of those votes are coming from people who would actually vote LP or CP.