Two hours after Chuck Baldwin defeated Alan Keyes for the Constitution Party nomination, no mainstream media has yet posted this news to a web page, not even the Kansas City press (the convention is in Kansas City). The only media that has reported it so far is Lew Rockwell.com, ThirdPartyWatch and this site. UPDATE: The Kansas City Star has now publicized the outcome; see this.
The Voice of America has this story about the race for the Libertarian presidential nomination. Thanks to the Wayne Root campaign for the link.
The Voice of America has this story about the race for the Libertarian presidential nomination. Thanks to the Wayne Root campaign for the link.
The rollcall is finished at the Constitution Party national convention, and the results are a first ballot victory for Chuck Baldwin of Florida, for president. Baldwin was the party’s vice-presidential candidate in 2004. Thanks to the Alan Keyes web site www.alankeyes.com for broadcasting a live showing of the rollcall, and also thanks to ThirdPartyWatch. The final vote was: Baldwin 383.8; Keyes 125.7; Max Riekse 4.5; Daniel Imperato 1; Susan Duzey 1. The Keyes total was buoyed by strong support from California, and Keyes also won the most votes from Alaska, Maryland, Missouri, and Oklahoma.
Before the vote was taken, a procedural vote settled that Ron Paul, who had not sought the party’s nomination, was not a valid choice at the convention roll-call.
See www.thirdpartywatch.com for a report by Mike Ferguson on the Constitution Party’s national convention in Kansas City.
