On August 5, Public Policy Polls released this Arkansas poll, covering all candidates on the ballot. Thanks to Michael for the link.
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Florida legislative leaders say they are willing to redraw U.S. House district boundaries this month, but they won’t consent to implement the new boundaries for the 2014 election. See this story.
According to this story, Caleb Coulter, a former member of the Roanoke, Virginia Republican Committee, has left the Republican Party and will be the campaign manager for Rob Sarvis, Libertarian nominee for U.S. Senate in Virginia.
On August 5, an NBC 4 NY/Wall Street Journal/Marist Poll was released for the New York gubernatorial race. The results: Democratic incumbent Andrew Cuomo 54%; Republican Rob Astorino 23%; Green Party nominee Howie Hawkins 7%; other 1%; undecided 16%. See here for more detail, including a breakdown by party affiliation.
The last time the nominee of a nationally-organized party, other than the Democratic and Republican Parties, received as much as 7% for New York Governor was 1998, when the Reform Party (which was the Independence Party within New York at the time) polled 7.69% for Thomas Golisano. Although the Independence Party did even better in 2002, by then it wasn’t part of a nationally-organized party.
As far as is known, the only other candidate who is petitioning for a place on the November 2014 ballot is Michael McDermott, the Libertarian nominee. Thanks to Michael for the link.
This interesting story describes the North Carolina legislature’s problems trying to go home for the year, something that seems unlikely to happen for some weeks, if not months. There is a pending ballot access bill in the North Carolina legislature, HB 185. It has already passed the House and simply provides that the legislature would study the ballot access laws.