On November 23, the Republican Party unveiled the party’s national convention logo for 2016. The logo shows a small elephant standing on a large guitar. The guitar is symbolic of Cleveland’s music tradition; the convention is being held in Cleveland. See this story.
Republican presidential candidates will debate each other on December 15 in Las Vegas. CNN, the sponsor, said on November 20 that candidates must be at 3.5% nationally in order to qualify. They can also qualify if they are at 4% in either Iowa or New Hampshire.
It is likely that nine Republicans will qualify.
The Portland Press Herald has this comprehensive story about the Green Party in Portland, Maine. Oddly, however, it doesn’t mention that in November 2016, Maine voters will be voting on an initiative to use instant runoff voting for all state and federal office (except President).
On Sunday, November 22, Donald Trump said on a television interview program that if the Republican Party does not treat him fairly, he would consider running as an independent, even though he signed a pledge some months ago saying he would not do that. See this story.
As reported earlier, John McAfee has formed the Cyber Party and is its presidential nominee. The vice-presidential nominee is Ken Rutkowski of California. Rutkowski is well-known because of his radio program, Business Rockstars. It has a greater audience than any other radio show concerned with business.
Other minor party nominations this month that had not previously been mentioned at BAN are:
1. Workers World Party, Monica Moorehead for President and Lamont Lilly for Vice-President.
2. American Freedom Party, vice-presidential nominee is Tom Bowie.
3. Independent American Party, presidential nominee Farley Anderson (no v-p nominee yet).
