Canada holds its parliamentary election on October 19. The mainstream press has paid little attention to the election. Here is a comprehensive Pittsburgh Post-Gazette article about the election, emphasizing that any one of three parties could win.
According to this story, former New York city Mayor Michael Bloomberg is seriously thinking of running for President as an independent. He was born in 1942, the same year Joseph Biden was born.
The Arkansas Libertarian Party expects to file a lawsuit against the new law (passed in 2015) that says it must choose all its nominees by November 2015 for the election that is a year away. The Libertarian Party nominates by convention for the 2016 election. The two major parties nominate for all office in March 2016, in a primary, so the law’s timing is highly discriminatory. No state in U.S. history, until now, has ever required any type of party to choose all its nominees in the odd year before the election year. It is difficult to imagine how Arkansas will defend the law.
The new lawsuit will probably be filed September 30, 2015.
Bridgeport is electing a Mayor on November 3, 2015, in a partisan election. The incumbent Mayor, Bill Finch, was defeated for re-election in last month’s Democratic primary, but he wants to run in the general election anyway. Some supporters of Finch had petitioned to place the Job Creation Party on the ballot, and Finch hoped to be its nominee. However, on September 25 the Secretary of State ruled that the Job Creation Party didn’t meet the deadline for nominating candidates.
Another minor party organized just in Bridgeport, the New Majority Party, has its own candidate, Charles Coviello. Also running are the Democratic and Republican nominees and three independent candidates. See this story.
Gallup Polls has been asking the U.S. public starting in 2003 whether they believe the U.S. needs a new major political party. On September 25, new results were released. See this Gallup press release. The percentage of respondents replying “yes” is up to 60%. That is the highest ever, except once before it was at 60%.
