This year, the only candidates who will be listed on the New York ballot for U.S. Senate are incumbent Democrat Kirsten Gillibrand, and Republican nominee Chele Chiavacci. This is the first time since 1956 that a New York U.S. Senate election has had only two names on the ballot.
The Green Party is ballot-qualified, and would have run someone, but because the primary for congress was in June, the party’s normal processes for recruiting candidates was too late. The Libertarian Party is not ballot-qualified, but it did petition this year for a statewide slate. But it left U.S. Senate off its statewide petition because the petitioning period for U.S. Senate was a different time period than the petitioning period for state office, so in effect the party would have needed two separate statewide petitions.
The other ballot-qualified parties in New York all nominated either Gillibrand or Chiavacci. Gillibrand is the nominee of the Working Families, Independence, and Women’s Equality Party. Chiavacci is the nominee of the Conservative and Reform Parties.
Will the HACKS use the 2018 USA Senate data for 2021-2022 gerrymanders or will only the 2016-2020 USA Prez data be used ???
Abolish the USA Senate — one of the worst [if NOT THE WORST] ANTI-Democracy minority rule legislative bodies in Western Civilization.
NY voters — major victims with CA, TX, etc. voters
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This is absolutely pathetic. Would the LP have petitioned if they had a different candidate than the plane hijacker guy (Aaron Commey)?
The LP is becoming more of a joke all the time.
LP vs communist Donkeys / fascist Elephants
NO Joke
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Check out our NY Governor Candidate, Larry Sharpe, before talk of us becoming a joke. After Gary Johnson’s race this is the race to watch http://www.facebook.com/Sharpe4Gov
Gary Johnson is the definition of joke. Weld is even worse. Remember when the LP was, you know, libertarian?
me, the Libertarian Party had 517,000 registered members as of February 2018, and it is probably higher now. That is the largest number of registrants any third party in the U.S. has ever had (although of course the population of the U.S. is much greater now than in the past).
Also the Libertarian Party’s presidential percentage in 2016, 3.3%, is the highest any political party has polled for President in the last 90 years, except for the American Party in 1968, and the Reform Party in 1996, plus the Democratic and Republican Parties, of course. Johnson even got a higher percentage of the vote than Henry Wallace got in 1948, and Henry Wallace was a former vice-president of the U.S. at the time he ran.
Percentagewise, that would translate to about 0.328% of registered voters.
Richard, how many of them are actually libertarian? Gary Johnson and especially Bill Weld are far from it. The party is watered down. They nominated Barr and Root once- that right there says it.
So much for party of principle
See the LP Platforms — USA and States.
What Donkey / Elephant HACK incumbent pays ANY attention to the USA Donkey / Elephant Platform ???
If John Hospers ran in 2016 the purists would be screeching about how he wasn’t a real libertarian.
I agree with Jim, the LP is just as principled as it was in the past, perhaps more so in some regards. I still can’t wrap my head around Barr getting the nomination in 2008 and in the 90s there were several people in the movement that openly called white-separatists “allies”. Gary Johnson is just as libertarian as the other big names in the party. OnTheIssues.org actually has Johnson as MORE libertarian than Ron Paul:
http://www.ontheissues.org/Gary_Johnson.htm
http://www.ontheissues.org/Ron_Paul.htm