The Jackson Hole New & Guide has this fairly lengthy story about the presidential debate held in Cheyenne, Wyoming on October 24.
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Alaska voters will see Measure Two on their November 2020 ballot. It is a measure that would make it more difficult for parties to obtain or keep qualified status. It ends the ability of parties to have nominees for any office other than president. Therefore, there would no longer be any method for parties to obtain or keep qualified status based on their votes. Instead, the only way would be to have registration equal to 3% of the last vote cast.
This newspaper story says the initiative has received 99.5% of its funding from outside Alaska. The main contributors are John and Laura Arnold, and Kathryn Murdoch. The campaign for the initiative is outspending the opposition by fifteen to one.
On October 27, the Institute for Government Affairs released this poll for president in California. Even though the respondents weren’t asked about any particular third party presidential candidate, the results are: Biden 65%, Trump 29%, other/undecided 6%. Generally when pollsters mention particular alternative candidates to respondents, the share of the vote for alternates goes up, compared to polls that just ask about “other.”
In November 2016, the “other” vote in California for president was 6.65%.
On October 23, the Eighth Circuit refused to stay the order of the U.S. District Court in Craig v Simon, 20-3126. This means that the state must hold an election for U.S. House, 2nd district, on November 3, 2020, even though a state law says that when a major party nominee dies shortly before the election, that election must be postponed to February.
The Republican Party nominee, who objects to holding the election on November 3, then asked for U.S. Supreme Court intervention, which is pending. Case 20A73. Thanks to Thomas Jones for this news.
The Hobby School of Public Affairs at the University of Houston has released the results of a poll for the Texas presidential, U.S. Senate, and Railroad Commission races. The poll includes the nominees of the Libertarian and Green Parties. Here is a link. Scroll down to page 16. Thanks to Mark P. Jones for the link.