TIME Magazine has posted this interesting article (dated November 3) about minor party and independent presidential candidates this year. Thanks to Wayne A. Root for the link.
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Guam is the only U.S. territorial possession that votes for president in the general election. Since Guam is on the other side of the International Date Line, Guam is voting on Tuesday (from its own perspective), but that is simultaneous with Monday night and very early Tuesday morning, in the remainder of the U.S.
Guam polls are open 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. Translated to eastern time in the U.S., that range of time runs from 5 p.m. Monday to 5 a.m. Tuesday morning.
Guam has been voting for president in every general election starting with 1980. It has always voted for the person who became president. In 2004 it voted Bush 21,490; Kerry 11,781; Nader 196; Badnarik 67.
Traditionally, U.S. major media completely ignores the Guam vote, even though Dixville Notch, New Hampshire, and Hart’s Location, New Hampshire, which also vote well ahead of the remainder of the United States, always get attention.
Since Guam has no electoral votes, the Guam vote has no effect on the electoral college.
On November 3, SurveyUSA released a North Carolina poll. For Governor, Perdue (Dem.) 48%, McCrory (Rep.) 47%, Munger (Libt.) 4%, undecided 2%.
For U.S. Senate, Hagan (Dem.) 50%, Dole (Rep.) 43%, Cole (Libt.) 5%, undecided 2%.
For president, the only categories are McCain, Obama, and “other”, but Bob Barr is the only “other” choice on the ballot. McCain 49%, Obama 48%, other 2%, undecided 2%.
On November 1, a Deseret News/KSL-TV presidential poll was released. It is based on 1,205 voters, sampled between October 24 and October 30. Results: McCain 57%, Obama 32%, Baldwin 2%, Barr 1%, Nader 1%, undecided or refused 7%. Thanks to Frank Fluckiger for this news.
In 2004, the presidential vote in Utah had been: Republican 71.5%, Democratic 26.0%, Nader (independent) 1.2%, Constitution .7%, Libertarian .4%.
On Monday, November 3, the 2nd circuit refused to disturb Friday’s U.S. District Court decision, in the controversy over who should be listed on the November 4 ballot as the Working Families Party nominee for U.S. House, 26th district. Therefore, Jonathan Powers will be listed. The case is Republican Party of New York v New York State Board of Elections.
Powers doesn’t want to be the Working Families Party nominee, so he moved to Washington, D.C. However, Article I of the U.S. Constitution, which lists the qualifications to be in Congress, says the candidate must be a resident of the state “when elected”, which means November 4, not any time prior to November 4. This outcome is consistent with the 2006 ruling in Texas, in which the Republican Party hoped to show that Tom DeLay wasn’t eligible to run for re-election in Texas because he had moved to Virginia.
If Powers had been ineligible to run in this year’s New York race, the Working Families Party could have listed Alice Kryzan as its nominee. She is also the Democratic nominee. The Republican Party of New York state filed this federal lawsuit because it doesn’t want Kryzan to be helped by having both the Working Families and Democratic nominations.