Stephen Colbert is not assured of a place on either the South Carolina Republican primary ballot, or the South Carolina Democratic primary ballot. See here for an article that gives the details. Thanks to Michael Ravnitzky for this news.
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On October 19, California’s Secretary of State released a new registration tally, as of September 4, 2007. This is the first California tally since the February 10, 2007 tally.
The new figures show very little change. The first percentage below is the February 2007 tally; the second one is the September 2007 tally. The Republican and Reform Parties declined moderately. The Democratic and Green Parties declined slightly. The Constitution Party gained slightly, the Libertarian and Peace & Freedom Parties were stationary, and the independents gained moderately.
Feb. 2007 Sept. 2007
Democratic 42.52% 42.50%
Republican 34.19% 33.84%
Constitution (AIP) 2.00% 2.04%
Green .89% .88%
Libertarian .53% .53%
Peace & Freedom .37% .37%
Reform (not on ballot) .22% .19%
indp. & other 19.28% 19.65%
The Reconstruction Party of New Orleans, Louisiana, was founded on September 2, 2007. Its first nominee for public office was in a special election for New Orleans City Council-at-large, held October 20. Thirteen candidates ran for a single seat. The Reconstruction Party ran Malcolm Suber. He polled 1.15% of the vote. Since the Reconstruction Party isn’t a qualified party in Louisiana, Suber was listed on the ballot as an “Other” candidate. He had been endorsed by Cynthia McKinney and by the Louisiana Green Party. Suber is founder of the People’s Hurricane Relief Fund.
Louisiana elected its state officials on October 20. The only statewide race with any minor party members running was the gubernatorial race, where the Libertarian Party was running its first-ever candidate for Governor of Louisiana. The results:
Bobby Jindal, Republican, 53.91%
Walter Boasso, Democrat, 17.44%
John Georges, independent, 14.39%
Foster Campbell, Democrat, 12.44%
Mary Smith, Democrat, .45%
Belinda Alexandrenko, independent .37%
Anthony Gentile, independent .26%
T. Lee Horne, Libertarian, .20%
Sheldon Forest, independent, .18%
M. V. Mendoza, Democrat, .16%
Hardy Parkerson, Democrat, .13%
Arthur Nichols, independent, .08%
Since Bobby Jindal got over 50%, there will be no run-off. Louisiana is the only state which elects its state officials in a “top-two” primary. No party technically has any nominees; that is why there were five Democrats running, instead of just one.
The Socialist Party nominated Brian Moore of Florida for president, and Stewart Alexander of California for vice-president, at the St. Louis convention. The final presidential vote was 25 for Moore and 20 for Eric Chester of Massachusetts. Inasmuch as Alexander is also a member of the Peace & Freedom Party, this may be the best opportunity the Socialist Party ticket has ever had to also win the Peace & Freedom nomination. The Socialist Party has tried many times in the past to have its presidential candidate also be nominated by the Peace & Freedom Party, but that goal has always eluded it.
Brian Moore’s pre-nomination campaign website has been www.votebrianmoore.com. It has not yet been updated to show that he is the nominee.