This Arkansas poll of the four U.S. House races in that state includes all candidates listed on the ballot in each race. Both the Green Party and the Libertarian Party have candidates in all four races. Although the poll talks excitedly about the prospect that Republicans will win all four races, Republicans already have three of the four seats. Thanks to Mr. Straw for the link.
South Carolina has always permitted fusion (i.e., letting two parties jointly nominate the same candidate), but it has not been used very much in the last 100 years. The Working Families Party, which has been ballot-qualified in South Carolina starting in 2006, had had to struggle to persuade Democrats (those that the party wants to cross-endorse) to accept the WFP nomination.
This year, however, four Democratic nominees for U.S. House are also Working Families Party nominees. By contrast, there were only two such U.S. House Democratic nominees who accepted the party’s nomination in 2006, and none in 2008, and one in 2010. Of course, sometimes the Working Families Party does not desire to nominate certain Democratic nominees.
Here is an article about the Working Families Party’s four nominees for U.S. House. The Working Families Party also has more legislative nominees (again, they are also Democratic nominees) than ever before in South Carolina.
South Carolina, like New York and Connecticut, lets the voter choose the party label for candidates who are the nominees of two parties. So, a voter can not only vote for such a person, but can choose whether to cast the vote under the Democratic label or the Working Families label. Most states that permit fusion do not give the voter that option.
The CNN/ORC poll released September 20 lists four presidential candidates. The results are: Obama 47%, Romney 44%, Goode 4%, Johnson 3%, undecided or no one, 2%. Thanks to Kevin Hayes for the link.
This Toledo Blade lengthy article explains the status of the many pending lawsuits in Ohio over vote procedures.
Minor party and/or independent candidates for Congress will appear on the ballot in 44 states this November. The states in which there will be no such candidates are Alabama, Georgia, Hawaii, Nebraska, South Dakota, and Washington.
In Hawaii, Nebraska, and South Dakota, there are ballot-qualified minor parties who could have run someone without a great deal of effort, but no one chose to run.
In Washington, the top-two primary system produced only Democrats and Republicans on the ballot for Congress. In Alabama and Georgia, the petition requirements are so severe that no one outside the two major parties ran.
