The Independent Party of Oregon held its own private presidential primary earlier this month. Here are the results. Because no candidate got as much as 50%, the party will not nominate anyone for president. And even if there were no such party rule, the winner of the primary is Bernie Sanders, and he would not have accepted the nomination. Donald Trump was a close second in the primary, and if he had won the primary, and the party had decided to nominate him, he would then have been on the November ballot in Oregon as “Republican, Independent.”
Nominate someone. Anyone. Gloria LaRiva. Rocky De La Fuente, Darrell Castle. Anyone. You have a ballot line. I guess I don’t understand not using it.
Richard,
Do you know the length of time people had for deciding and replying to the survey?
It’s interesting, to note, that less than 2% of the party’s registration voted.
Not quite right. IPO is not nominating a candidate now, as a result of its private presidential primary. Its State Council still could nominate someone before August 30.
Voting was open from July 4 through July 18 and then was extended for a few additional days.