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.
This Fox News story briefly mentions the Free & Equal presidential debate of October 24, but does not describe it. The debate was held in Cheyenne, Wyoming, but the story refers to “Cheyenne, Wisconsin.” The debate was part of the Independent National Convention.
An Atlanta Journal-Constitution poll for Georgia was released on October 26. It includes the Libertarians for both President and the full U.S. Senate term election. See this story.
This story says it is somewhat likely that the Libertarian Party might elect a state legislator in Wyoming next month.
This New York Times story is about a Russian local election, in which the incumbent Mayor of a small town wanted an easy re-election, but he also wanted the election to look genuine, so he recruited a janitor to run against him. To everyone’s shock, the janitor won.
The story says Russia is a “managed democracy”, where “elections take place on schedule, but the incumbent virtually never loses. To achieve this, the police squelch real political opposition, and election commissions bump promising candidates off the ballot with technicalities.”
When that happens in the United States, the Times in recent years has not expressed any complaint. This year, when miniscule technicalities kept Green Party presidential nominee Howie Hawkins off the ballot in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania, the Times either ignored the story, or its news coverage was supportive of the candidate’s removal. In Wisconsin, Hawkins was kept off the ballot because his running mate moved during the petition drive and some of their petitions had the old address listed. In Pennsylvania, a form was faxed in to the Elections Office instead of being attached to the petition. This year, the Green Party was also kept off the ballot in Montana for all office, after Democratic officials invented a procedure to ask voters to retract their signatures that did not exist in the election law, and courts then removed the Green Party. The Times did not cover the Montana story.
