Four counties in the United States gave Virgil Goode, Constitution Party presidential nominee, more than 2% of the total vote last month. They were Franklin County, Virginia (2.58%); Carroll County, Virginia (2.17%); Esmeralda County, Nevada (2.08%), and Craig County, Virginia (2.06%).

Two of the three Virginia counties listed above were not in Goode’s old Congressional district, the 5th. Instead they were in the 9th district, the far western part of Virginia.

Goode’s best states were: South Dakota .65%; Wyoming .59%; North Dakota .37%; Michigan .3407%; Idaho .3406%; and Virginia .339%.

On December 18, the Federal Election Commission certified another $202,026 in primary season matching funds for Gary Johnson. Presumably, this is the final certification for him and any other presidential candidate for 2012. Johnson’s total 2012 primary season matching funds amount is now $510,261.

According to this article, it is likely that Hawaii Congresswoman Colleen Hanabusa will be appointed to Hawaii’s vacant U.S. Senate seat. If that happens, Hawaii will then soon hold a special election to fill Hanabusa’s seat. Hawaii special U.S. House elections are one-round elections in which parties do not have nominees. When Hawaii held a special U.S. House election in 2010, two popular Democrats ran, splitting the normal Democratic vote, so that Republican Charles Djou was elected. The vote in that special May 2010 special election for the top three candidates were: Republican Djou 67,610; Democrat Colleen Hanabusa 52,802, Democrat Ed Case 47,391. But in November 2010, in a normal partisan election, Djou lost to Hanabusa.