Many recent polls have matched up Hillary Clinton against John McCain in a hypothetical major party contest for the 2008 presidential election. These polls always show McCain with a comfortable lead over Clinton.
The Wall Street Journal/NBC Polling Organization released a new poll on December 15, listing the choices as McCain, Clinton and New York city mayor Michael Bloomberg. Results are: Clinton 40%, McCain 39%, Bloomberg/undecided/other 21%.
On December 16, the Libertarian Party announced that its 2008 presidential convention will be May 23-26, 2008, in Denver. The hotel will be Adam’s Mark Hotel.
Lyndon LaRouche has indicated that he does not plan to run for president in 2008. This will be the first presidential election in which he has not run for president since 1972. In 1976, he was the nominee of the U.S. Labor Party. In all presidential election years starting in 1980, he has sought the Democratic Party nomination and has tried to run in as many Democratic Party presidential primaries as possible. He also ran as an independent in 1984, 1988 and 1992.
Former Georgia Congressman Bob Barr has been elected to the Libertarian Party National Committee. He will represent Region 4, which consists of Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Mississippi, North Carolina, South Carolina, and Tennessee. Barr has been a life member of the Libertarian Party for some time. He was in Congress as a Republican from January 1995 through January 2003.
It is already too late for any more bills to be introduced in the 2007 session of the Maine legislature. The session started December 6, 2006, and that was also the deadline for all bills to be introduced.
Unfortunately, no Maine legislator introduced a bill to ease the definition of “party”. In 2005, the legislature had virtually passed a bill to improve the definition of “party”, except that the bill was tabled for budgetary reasons at the last instant. It is somewhat likely that bill could have passed in 2007, but since it was not introduced by the deadline, that hope is shattered.
If you are thinking about finding a state legislator to introduce a bill to improve any law, this is the time to act.
