My April Fools post at IPR: Former US President Bill Clinton joins Libertarian Party

In a move that few, if any, people saw coming, former US President William J. Clinton is set to announce today that he is joining the Libertarian Party. Clinton first hinted at his new political direction back in 1997, but Libertarians didn’t believe him, and not long afterwards called for his impeachment. “What really did [...]

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West Virginia Ballot Access

I’ve told bits and pieces of this story in response to comments on various threads in various places. Having done so over and over, I feel the need to go ahead and put it all out there now so that everyone has one place to turn to for my perspective as state chair. I’m going [...]

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Even this candidate managed to beat Bob Barr

Maybe the LP will nominate this guy next time around.  Seems like a modest improvement to me. Old, Grizzled Third-Party Candidate May Steal Support From McCain

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Rasmussen: Majority of small l libertarians planning to vote for Obama

Rasmussen reports that Libertarian voters make up 4% of the nation’s likely voters and they favor Barack Obama over John McCain by a 53% to 38% margin. Three percent (3%) would vote for some other candidate and 5% are not sure. These results, from an analysis of 15,000 Likely Voter interviews conducted by Rasmussen Reports, [...]

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LP tackles raging Boehner!

originally posted by GE at IPR. Headline by Fred Church in the comments. In response to House GOP leader John Boehner’s comments to Reason‘s Dave Weigel — that conservatives considering a vote for Bob Barr “might as well vote for Barack Obama” — the LP has issued a press release with harsh words for the [...]

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